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13 Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is too great for me to bear. 14 Look, today you have driven me away from the soil. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth. And whoever finds me will kill me.”

15 The Lord said to him, “No![a] If anyone kills Cain, he will face sevenfold revenge.” And the Lord appointed a sign for[b] Cain, so that anyone who found him would not strike him down.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 4:15 The translation no is supported by the ancient versions. The Hebrew reads very well then.
  2. Genesis 4:15 Or placed a mark on