10 God then said: What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!
11 Now you are banned from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
12 If you till the ground, it shall no longer give you its produce. You shall become a constant wanderer on the earth.
13 Cain said to the Lord: “My punishment is too great to bear.
14 Look, you have now banished me from the ground. I must avoid you and be a constant wanderer on the earth. Anyone may kill me at sight.”
15 Not so! the Lord said to him. If anyone kills Cain, Cain shall be avenged seven times. So the Lord put a mark on Cain, so that no one would kill him at sight.
16 Cain then left the Lord’s presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.