8 Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”H And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.r

9 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”

“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s guardian?”

10 Then he said, “What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!s 11 So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.I 12 If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”t

13 But Cain answered the Lord, “My punishmentA is too great to bear! 14 Since you are banishing me today from the face of the earth, and I must hide from your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me.”a.