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What the source reads — the standard text: the LORD speaks to Cain, and the passage moves on
What this version reads — the Ge'ez adds ወይቤ ፡ ቃየን — 'and Cain said…', Cain's own reply, absent from the Hebrew, Greek and Latin
A genuine extra phrase in the Ethiopic tradition — Cain answering the LORD, a line no other main text carries. Recorded as a real expansion. (Surfaced in this project's Findings; the Ge'ez source is under a NonCommercial licence, so only the phrase is quoted.)
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