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God curses Cain

3874 BC traditional (Jones)

Passage
Gen 4:11-16
Person
Cain
Place
Nod
Before
Cain kills Abel
After
Birth of Seth

Participants

Taking part, as Theographic records them, most often named first.

Divine

Places

Where it happens. No location is known for any of them.

  1. location unknown: Nod

Every verse

All 6 verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Genesis6 verses
  1. 4:11

    Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

  2. 4:12

    When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

  3. 4:13

    But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

  4. 4:14

    Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

  5. 4:15

    “Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.

  6. 4:16

    So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.