Genesis 4:14-16

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁴ Since You are banishing me today from the soil, and I must hide myself from Your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me.”^(A)

¹⁵ Then the Lord replied to him, “In that case,^[a] whoever kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.”^[b] And He placed a mark^(B) on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him. ¹⁶ Then Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.