Genesis 4:13-15

New Catholic Bible

¹³ Cain told the Lord, “My punishment is too great to bear! ¹⁴ Behold, you are banishing me from the soil this day. I will have to hide far from you. I will be a fugitive and wanderer upon the earth, and whoever meets me will be able to kill me.” ¹⁵ But the Lord told him, “Not so! Whoever kills Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance.” The Lord placed a mark^[a] upon Cain, so that no one who might meet him would strike him.