Genesis 4:8-15

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.