New American Bible, Revised Edition

Genesis 4:13-18 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

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.