Genesis 4:13-16

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¹³ Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is greater than I can bear! ¹⁴ Today you have driven me away from the soil, and I shall be hidden from your face; I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and anyone who meets me may kill me.”^{(A) 15} Then the Lord said to him, “Not so!^[a] Whoever kills Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance.” And the Lord put a mark on Cain, so that no one who came upon him would kill him.^{(B) 16} Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and settled in the land of Nod,^[b] east of Eden.