invention of a covetous man, and gotten by forcing the ground;
whence it was that Cain was very angry that Abel was preferred by
God before him; and he slew his brother, and hid his dead body,
thinking to escape discovery. But God, knowing what had been
done, came to Cain, and asked him what was become of his brother,
because he had not seen him of many days; whereas he used to
observe them conversing together at other times. But Cain was in
doubt with himself, and knew not what answer to give to God. At
first he said that he was himself at a loss about his brother's
disappearing; but when he was provoked by God, who pressed him
vehemently, as resolving to know what the matter was, he replied,
he was not his brother's guardian or keeper, nor was he an
observer of what he did. But, in return, God convicted Cain, as
having been the murderer of his brother; and said, "I wonder at
thee, that thou knowest not what is become of a man whom thou
thyself hast destroyed." God therefore did not inflict the
punishment [of death] upon him, on account of his offering
sacrifice, and thereby making supplication to him not to be
extreme in his wrath to him; but he made him accursed, and
threatened his posterity in the seventh generation. He also cast
him, together with his wife, out of that land. And when he was
afraid that in wandering about he should fall among Wild beasts,
and by that means perish, God bid him not to entertain such a
melancholy suspicion, and to go over all the earth without fear
of what mischief he might suffer from wild beasts; and setting a
mark upon him, that he might be known, he commanded him to
depart.

2. And when Cain had traveled over many countries, he, with his
wife, built a city, named Nod, which is a place so called, and