10. Then the Lord said, “What have you done? Your brother’s blood is on the ground. That blood is like a voice that tells me what happened.
11. And now you will be cursed in your work with the ground. It is the same ground where your brother’s blood fell. Your hands killed him.
12. You will work the ground. But it will not grow good crops for you anymore. You will wander around on the earth.”
13. Then Cain said to the Lord, “This punishment is more than I can stand!
14. Look! You have forced me to stop working the ground. And now I must hide from you. I will wander around on the earth. And anyone who meets me can kill me.”
15. Then the Lord said to Cain, “No! If anyone kills you, I will punish that person seven times more.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain. It was a warning to anyone who met him not to kill him.
16. Then Cain went away from the Lord. Cain lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.