9 The Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?"Cain said, "I don’t know. Am I my brother’s guardian?"
10 The Lord said, "What did you do? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground.
11 You are now cursed from the ground that opened its mouth to take your brother’s blood from your hand.
12 When you farm the fertile land, it will no longer grow anything for you, and you will become a roving nomad on the earth."
13 Cain said to the Lord, "My punishment is more than I can bear.
14 Now that you’ve driven me away from the fertile land and I am hidden from your presence, I’m about to become a roving nomad on the earth, and anyone who finds me will kill me."
15 The Lord said to him, "It won’t happen; anyone who kills Cain will be paid back seven times. The Lord put a sign on Cain so that no one who found him would assault him.