7. If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin crouches at your door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.
8. And Cain said to his brother, Let us go out to the field. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. [I John 3:12.]
9. And the Lord said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?
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.