Genesis 4:8–26

⁸Then^f Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out into the field.”^g And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. ⁹Then^h Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?” ¹⁰And he said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground. ¹¹So now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand. ¹²When you till the ground it shall no longer yield its strength to you.ⁱ You shall be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth.” ¹³And Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear. ¹⁴Look, you have driven me out today from the face of the ground, and from your face I must hide. I will be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth, and it will happen that whoever finds me will kill me.” ¹⁵Then^j Yahweh said to him, “Therefore, whoever kills Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” Then^k Yahweh put a sign on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him. ¹⁶And Cain went out from the presence of Yahweh, and he settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

¹⁷And Cain knew^l his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. And when he built a city he named the city after his son, Enoch.^{m 18}And to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech. ¹⁹And Lamech took to himself two wives.ⁿ The name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah. ²⁰And Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and those who have livestock. ²¹And the name of his brother was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and wind instruments. ²²Then^o Zillah also gave birth to Tubal-Cain who forged all kinds of tools of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.

²³Then^p Lamech said to his wives,

“Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice;

O wives of Lamech, hear my words.

I have killed a man for wounding me,

Even a young man for injuring me.

²⁴If Cain is avenged sevenfold,

Then Lamech will be avenged seventy and seven times.

²⁵Then^q Adam knew^r his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. And she called his name Seth, for she said “God has appointed to me another child in the place of Abel, because Cain killed him.” ²⁶And as for Seth, he also fathered a son, and he called his name Enosh. At that time he^s began to call on the name of Yahweh.