10. And [the Lord] said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.
11. And now you are cursed by reason of the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's [shed] blood from your hand.
12. When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth [in perpetual exile, a degraded outcast].
13. Then Cain said to the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
14. Behold, You have driven me out this day from the face of the land, and from Your face I will be hidden; and I will be a fugitive and a vagabond and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.
15. And the Lord said to him, Therefore, if anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark or sign upon Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.
16. So Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod [wandering], east of Eden.