Genesis 4:12

10 And He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood ^acries out to Me from the ground.

11 So now ^ayou are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

12 When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth.”

13 And Cain said to the Lord, “My¹ punishment is greater than I can bear!

14 Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; ^aI shall be ^bhidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that ^canyone who finds me will kill me.”

15 And the Lord said to him,¹ “Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him ^asevenfold.” And the Lord set a ^bmark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.

The Family of Cain

16 Then Cain ^awent out from the ^bpresence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of¹ Nod on the east of Eden.

17 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Ē´noch. And he built a city, ^aand called the name of the city after the name of his son—Ē´noch.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Genesis 4:12

A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be - Thou shalt be expelled from the presence of God, and from thy family connections, and shalt have no fixed secure residence in any place. The Septuagint render this , thou shalt be groaning and trembling upon the earth - the horror of thy crime shall ever haunt thee, and thou shalt never have any well-grounded hope that God will remit the punishment thou deservest. No state out of endless perdition can be considered more awful than this.

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