⁶ And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your face sad?

¹⁸ Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

² For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.

³¹ And he said to him, Son, you are with me at all times, and all I have is yours.

³² But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.