Genesis 4:8–18

⁸Cain talked to his brother Abel. Later, when they were in the fields, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. 

⁹The Lord asked Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” 

“I don’t know,” he answered. “Am I supposed to take care of my brother?” 

¹⁰The Lord asked, “What have you done? Your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground. ¹¹So now you are cursed from the ground, which has received the blood of your brother whom you killed. ¹²When you farm the ground, it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a fugitive, a wanderer on the earth.” 

¹³But Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can stand! ¹⁴You have forced me off this land today. I have to hide from you and become a fugitive, a wanderer on the earth. Now anyone who finds me will kill me!” 

¹⁵So the Lord said to him, “Not so! Anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” The Lord gave Cain a sign so that anyone meeting him would not kill him. 

¹⁶Then Cain left the Lord’s presence and lived in Nod ^[The Land of Wandering^[, east of Eden. 

Cain’s Ten Descendants—Cain to Lamech

¹⁷Cain made love to his wife. She became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was building a city, and he named it Enoch after his son. ¹⁸To Enoch was born Irad. Irad was the father of Mehujael. Mehujael was the father of Methushael. And Methushael was the father of Lamech.