Genesis 4:8–18

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

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

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

¹⁰Then 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.^{C 12}If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”^t

¹³But Cain answered the Lord, “My punishment^D is too great to bear! ¹⁴Since 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. ¹⁵Then the Lord replied to him, “In that case,^E whoever kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” And he placed a mark^b on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him. ¹⁶Then Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod,^F east of Eden.

THE LINE OF CAIN

¹⁷Cain was intimate with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain became the builder of a city, and he named the city Enoch after his son. ¹⁸Irad was born to Enoch, Irad fathered Mehujael, Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.