Genesis 4:14-16

Contemporary English Version

¹⁴“You're making me leave my home and live far from you.^[a] I will have to wander about without a home, and just anyone could kill me.”

¹⁵“No!”^[b] the Lord answered. “Anyone who kills you will be punished seven times worse than I am punishing you.” So the Lord put a mark on Cain to warn everyone not to kill him. ¹⁶But Cain had to go far from the Lord and live in the Land of Wandering,^[c] which is east of Eden.

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Footnotes

4.14 live … you: It was generally believed that the Lord was with his people only in their own land.
4.15 No: Three ancient translations; Hebrew “Very well!”
4.16 Wandering: The Hebrew text has “Nod,” which means “wandering.”