004:006 Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression
of your face fallen?
004:007 If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well,
sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you
are to rule over it."
004:008 Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field."
It happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up
against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
004:009 Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?"
He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
004:010 Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's
blood cries to me from the ground.
004:011 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened
its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
004:012 From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its
strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer
in the earth."
004:013 Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.
004:014 Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface
of the ground. I will be hidden from your face,
and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.
It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."
004:015 Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will
be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain,
lest any finding him should strike him.
004:016 Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and lived in the land
of Nod, east of Eden.
004:017 Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch.
He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name
of his son, Enoch.