Genesis 4:8-18

8 Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”[a] While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
9 Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
10 The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.
11 Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”
13 Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is more than I can bear.
14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
15 But the LORD said to him, “Not so[b] ; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
16 So Cain went out from the LORD’s presence and lived in the land of Nod,[c] east of Eden.
17 Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.
18 To 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.

Cross References 19

  • 1. Matthew 23:35; Luke 11:51; 1 John 3:12; Jude 1:11
  • 2. S Genesis 3:9
  • 3. S John 8:44
  • 4. Genesis 9:5; Genesis 37:20,26; Exodus 21:12; Numbers 35:33; Deuteronomy 21:7,9; 2 Samuel 4:11; Job 16:18; Job 24:2; Job 31:38; Psalms 9:12; Psalms 106:38; Hebrews 12:24; Revelation 6:9-10
  • 5. Deuteronomy 11:28; 2 Kings 2:24
  • 6. Deuteronomy 28:15-24
  • 7. Psalms 37:25; Psalms 59:15; Psalms 109:10
  • 8. ver 14
  • 9. 2 Kings 17:18; Psalms 51:11; Psalms 139:7-12; Jeremiah 7:15; Jeremiah 52:3
  • 10. ver 12; Deuteronomy 28:64-67
  • 11. Genesis 9:6; Exodus 21:12,14; Leviticus 24:17; Nu 35:19,21,27,33; 1 Kings 2:32; 2 Kings 11:16
  • 12. Ezekiel 9:4,6
  • 13. Exodus 21:20
  • 14. ver 24; Leviticus 26:21; Psalms 79:12
  • 15. Jude 1:11
  • 16. S Genesis 2:8
  • 17. S ver 1
  • 18. Psalms 55:9
  • 19. Psalms 49:11

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text does not have "“Let’s go out to the field.”"
  • [b]. Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew "Very well"
  • [c]. "Nod" means "wandering" (see verses 12 and 14).
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