Genesis 4:8–26

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.

¹⁹Lamech married^f two women,^g one named Adah and the other Zillah. ²⁰Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock. ²¹His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments^h and pipes.^{i 22}Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged^j all kinds of tools out of^g bronze and iron. Tubal-Cain’s sister was Naamah.

²³Lamech said to his wives,

“Adah and Zillah, listen to me;

wives of Lamech, hear my words.

I have killed^k a man for wounding me,

a young man for injuring me.

²⁴If Cain is avenged^l seven times,^m

then Lamech seventy-seven times.ⁿ”

²⁵Adam made love to his wife^o again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth,^hp saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”^{q 26}Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh.^r

At that time people began to call onⁱ the name of the Lord.^s