9. Then the Lord asked Cain, Where is your brother Abel? He answered, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
10. God then said: What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!
11. Now you are banned from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
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.
21. His brother’s name was Jubal, who became the ancestor of all who play the lyre and the reed pipe.
22. Zillah, on her part, gave birth to Tubalcain, the ancestor of all who forge instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.