Genesis 4:9–16 · BSB
4:9
And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
4:10
“What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.
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4:11
Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
4:12
When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
4:13
But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
4:14
Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
4:15
“Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.
4:16
So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
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