there used to be confrontation between the shepherds and farmers of Mary .why?
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Now that he had been ejected from the garden, Adam made a home for himself on the land where he had been created. Adam had sexual intercourse with his wife Eve. Soon afterwards she became pregnant and gave birth to her first son, Cain. Eve announced happily that Yahweh had given her a son. Then she got pregnant again. This time she gave birth to her second son, Abel.
Abel was a shepherd, a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer, who grew crops from the land he farmed.
In time, as was customary in those days, Cain and Abel each offered a gift to Yahweh. Each brought to Yahweh the best that he had. Cain, the farmer, brought a gift of fruits and vegetables that he had raised on his farm and offered it to Yahweh. Abel, the shepherd, brought young lambs from his flock of sheep and laid them on the altar as a gift to Yahweh.
Yahweh liked Abel and his offering of young lambs, but he did not like Cain's offering of fruits and vegetables and disrespectfully told him so. Cain was very angry, hurt and upset.
Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why do you look so upset? If you do the right thing you will be able to hold your head up with pride; if not, be careful what you say and get yourself under control or bad things will happen.”
A few days later when the brothers were working out in the fields, Cain suddenly attacked his brother and killed him, and then went home as if nothing had happened.
Yahweh came by later that afternoon and said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”
Cain said, “I don't know where he is. I am not my brother’s keeper. Abel is not my problem. Am I supposed to care about what happens to him?”
Yahweh replied, “What have you done, Cain? I hear the voice of your brother's blood crying to me from the earth seeking revenge. As punishment for killing Abel you are now banished from the land, which has been polluted by your brother's blood. From now on any land that you try to cultivate will be barren and will not produce crops and you will be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth.”
Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is too much, it is greater than I can bear. You have driven me from the land. I will hide my face from you. I will become a fugitive and a vagabond, and as I wander on the earth anyone who finds me will kill me.”
“No,” said Yahweh. “That will not happen. I have put a mark on you that identifies who you are, and I have put out the word that anyone who harms you, I will do to him seven times worse than he did to you.”
With the assurance that he would not be harmed, Cain left the area and moved to the land of Nod, on the east side of Eden.
Cain's wife shortly after became pregnant and gave birth to her son Enoch, who built a city and named it Enoch, after himself.
Enoch's great-great grandson, Lamech, had two wives and each had sons, one of whom was the father of people that dwell in tents and have cattle, another son was the father of people who play the harp and the organ, and a third son was an instructor of all those who are skilled in making brass and iron tools and metal weapons.
Commentary
Folk tales sometimes serve as simple explanations of complex relationships. Cain and Abel represent different tribal and cultural traditions and this story explains the struggle between two different ways of life in the ancient world, agriculture and farming. The Hebrew people were shepherds and nomadic wanderers and were among many nomadic peoples that moved into the grasslands of Canaan in the second millennium B.C., living between the cities of Canaan, whose inhabitants lived in walled cities surrounded by crop land that they farmed.
Conflict between shepherds and farmers was inevitable, and eventually the Hebrew people took over much of the land, driving out those who lived there. Israel's god Yahweh gave them victory over their neighbors. The story shows the struggle between the farmers (who were in the land first) and the nomadic shepherds. Yahweh's lack of interest in offerings of agricultural produce and his preference for animal sacrifice was because he was the god of the nomadic shepherds. The story justifies revenge attacks by Hebrews on the Canaanites (who were there first, but as their punishment they were thrown off their land) and incidentally explains why people have different traditions and technical skills.