Cain was rejected, but Abel was accepted. Discover why God accepted Abel’s offering but rejected Cain’s in this dramatic, simple Bible story with Polo and friends.
Learn how attitude, obedience, and faith matter more than the gift itself.
Perfect for all ages, families, and Sunday schools.
Produced in the UK with no political or denominational bias—just clear, authentic storytelling faithful to Scripture.
PRISCILLA: Hello, I’m Priscilla. We are going to show you the story of Cain and Abel. Maurice, can you be Abel?
MAURICE: Marvellous!
PRISCILLA: I will be Cain and Polo; you can be the presenter.
POLO: My normal role then?
MAURICE: You’ll be good at that, Polo.
POLO: I will make a start then. Cain, what’s wrong?
PRISCILLA: I went and worshipped the Lord God, and he didn’t like my offering. That is just being picky.
POLO: Whatever did you take as an offering?
PRISCILLA: I’m a farmer, so I took some carrots, potatoes, and cabbages because that’s the stuff I’m harvesting at the moment.
POLO: Perhaps you didn’t take enough.
PRISCILLA: Enough! I could barely carry it all! Of course, there was enough!
POLO: Perhaps the Lord was expecting you to bring something else. Ah, your brother Abel is coming this way. We could ask him.
PRISCILLA: Don’t ask that creep.
POLO: Abel, did you go to worship the Lord your God today?
MAURICE: Oh yes, it was wonderful. I feel so full of peace.
PRISCILLA: Oh, great, just rub it in. The Lord has accepted you and your offering, but he didn’t like my potatoes, carrots and cabbages.
POLO: So, Abel, what did you take as an offering?
MAURICE: I’m a shepherd. So, I chose the best lamb I could, and I brought that as an offering.
POLO: So, if you had been a farmer, you would have taken carrots, potatoes and cabbages. Is that what you would have done?
MAURICE: Oh no, no, no, no. Do you remember what our parents told us? That is Adam and Eve.
POLO: Er? No, go on, tell us.
MAURICE: When Adam and Eve didn’t obey the Lord God, they put themselves against him.
POLO: Oh yes, they ate the fruit. They shouldn’t have eaten it.
MAURICE: Yes, but the Lord wanted to carry on meeting with them. So, to show them how bad they had been, the Lord God killed an animal! That must have been a real shock because up until that moment, no one and nothing had died.
POLO: That’s horrible, it must have shown them that they deserved to die because an animal lost its life instead of them.
PRISCILLA: What has this got to do with my carrots, potatoes and cabbages?
POLO: The Lord God was showing us that we all do wrong things.
MAURICE: Yes, and I wanted to approach him with no pride. And I wanted to trust him that he will make me clean and forgive all those wrong things I do.
PRISCILLA: What a load of rush! I thought I’d take my carrots, potatoes and cabbages to the Lord God and he will have to like it.
MAURICE: Yes, you thought! You are telling the Lord how to think! The Lord is God; you don’t tell him what to do.
PRISCILLA: Well, no one tells me what to do!
POLO: Do you know what happened? They both went out into the field, and Cain did a horrible thing. He was so angry with his brother Abel that he hit him, and he died from his wounds.
MAURICE: Oh no! Cain has killed me off! Erm, right. Speaking as me, Maurice, now. I think Cain was not interested in what God wanted. He didn’t want to surrender to God.
POLO: Yes, Maurice, Cain decided to bring an offering to God, but how he did that was not important to him.
MAURICE: It didn’t matter what God thought.
POLO: What about us? Do we choose to obey God?
MAURICE: Or do we only choose the things we want and refuse to do all of the good things?
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