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15 Not so! the Lord said to him. If anyone kills Cain, Cain shall be avenged seven times. So the Lord put a mark[a] on Cain, so that no one would kill him at sight.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:15 A mark: probably a tattoo to mark Cain as protected by God. The use of tattooing for tribal marks has always been common among the Bedouin of the Near Eastern deserts.

They will take some of its blood and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.

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