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.
17. Cain had intercourse with his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. Cain also became the founder of a city, which he named after his son Enoch.
18. To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad became the father of Mehujael; Mehujael became the father of Methusael, and Methusael became the father of Lamech.
19. Lamech took two wives; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second Zillah.
20. Adah gave birth to Jabal, who became the ancestor of those who dwell in tents and keep livestock.