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