Genesis 4:8-26

8Cain 1told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and 2killed him.

9Then the Lord said to Cain, “3Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” 10He said, “What have you done? 4The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground. 11Now 5you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 126When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; 7you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.” 13Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is too great to bear! 14Behold, You have 8driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and 9I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and 10whoever finds me will kill me.” 15So the Lord said to him, “Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him 11sevenfold.” And the Lord 1213appointed a sign for Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him.

16Then Cain went out from the presence 14of the Lord, and 15settled in the land of 16Nod, east of Eden.

17Cain 17had relations with his wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city Enoch, after the name of his son. 18Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad 18became the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael 19became the father of Methushael, and Methushael 20became the father of Lamech. 19Lamech took to himself 21two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah. 20Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. 21His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe. 22As for Zillah, she also gave birth to Tubal-cain, the forger of all implements of bronze and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

23Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, Listen to my voice, You wives of Lamech, Give heed to my speech, 22For I 23have killed a man for wounding me; And a boy for striking me;24If Cain is avenged 24sevenfold, Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”

2525Adam 26had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him 27Seth, for, she said, “God 28has appointed me another 29offspring in place of Abel, 30for Cain killed him.” 26To Seth, to him also 31a son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then men began 32to call 33upon the name of the Lord.