>>8187859Therefore, you shall be more cursed than the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. If you till the soil, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. You shall be a ceaseless wanderer on earth.” Cain said to Yhwh, “My punishment is too great to bear! Since You have banished me this day from the soil, and I must avoid Your presence and become a ceaseless wanderer on earth—anyone who meets me may kill me!” Yhwh said to him, “I promise, if anyone kills Cain, sevenfold vengeance shall be taken on him.” And Yhwh put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
