Genesis 4:8-15 ▼

8 And Cain says to his brother Abel, [[“Let us go into the field”;]] and it comes to pass in their being in the field, that Cain rises up against his brother Abel, and slays him.

9 And YHWH says to Cain, “Where [is] your brother Abel?” And he says, “I have not known; am I my brother’s keeper?”

10 And He says, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground;

11 and now, cursed [are] you from the ground, which has opened her mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand;

12 when you till the ground, it will not add to give its strength to you—a wanderer, even a trembling one, you are in the earth.”

13 And Cain says to YHWH, “My punishment is too great than to bear;

14 behold, You have driven me today from off the face of the ground, and from Your face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it has been—everyone finding me will slay me.”

15 And YHWH says to him, “Therefore, of any slayer of Cain it is required sevenfold”; and YHWH sets to Cain a token that none finding him will slay him.