Genesis 4:8–18

⁸Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”^d While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.^m

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

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

¹⁰The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.^{p 11}Now you are under a curse^q and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. ¹²When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you.^r You will be a restless wanderer^s on the earth.^t”

¹³Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can bear. ¹⁴Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence;^u I will be a restless wanderer on the earth,^v and whoever finds me will kill me.”^w

¹⁵But the Lord said to him, “Not so^e; anyone who kills Cain^x will suffer vengeance^y seven times over.^z” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. ¹⁶So Cain went out from the Lord’s presence^a and lived in the land of Nod,^f east of Eden.^b

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