Genesis 4:10-20 (New American Standard)
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He said, "What have you done ? 1The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.
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"Now 2you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
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"3When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; 4you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth."
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Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is too great to bear !
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"Behold, You have 5driven me this day from the face of the ground ; and from Your face I will be hidden, and 6I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and 7whoever finds me will kill me."
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So the LORD said to him, "Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him 8sevenfold." And the LORD a9appointed a sign for Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him.
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Then Cain went out from the presence 10of the LORD, and bsettled in the land of cNod, east of Eden.
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Cain dhad 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.
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Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad ebecame the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael fbecame the father of Methushael, and Methushael gbecame the father of Lamech.
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Lamech took to himself 11two wives : the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.
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Adah gave birth to Jabal ; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
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