New American Standard Bible 2020

Genesis 4:11-17

11Now 1you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 12 2When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; 3you will be a wanderer and a drifter on the earth.” 13Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is too great to endure! 14Behold, You have 4driven me this day from the face of the ground; and I will be hidden from Your face, and 5I will be a wanderer and a drifter on the earth, and 6whoever finds me will kill me.” 15So the Lord said to him, “Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him 7seven times as much.” And the Lord 8 9placed a mark on Cain, so that no one finding him would kill him.

16Then Cain left the presence 10of the Lord, and 11settled in the land of 12Nod, east of Eden.

17Cain 13had relations with his wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch; and Cain built a city, and named the city Enoch, after the name of his son.

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Notes

1. Genesis 4:11 Gen 3:14; Deut 28:15-20; Gal 3:10 ↩
2. Genesis 4:12 Deut 28:15-24; Joel 1:10-20 ↩
3. Genesis 4:12 Lev 26:17, 36 ↩
4. Genesis 4:14 Gen 3:24; Jer 52:3 ↩
5. Genesis 4:14 Deut 28:64-67 ↩
6. Genesis 4:14 Num 35:19 ↩
7. Genesis 4:15 Gen 4:24 ↩
8. Genesis 4:15 Or set a sign for ↩
9. Genesis 4:15 Ezek 9:4, 6 ↩
10. Genesis 4:16 2 Kin 24:20; Jer 23:39; 52:3 ↩
11. Genesis 4:16 Lit dwelt ↩
12. Genesis 4:16 I.e., wandering ↩
13. Genesis 4:17 Lit knew his ↩

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