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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Genesis 4
⁸ Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.
⁹ Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?"
¹⁰ He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground.
¹¹ Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
¹² When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth."
¹³ Cain said to the Lord, "My punishment is too great to bear!
¹⁴ Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."
¹⁵ So the Lord said to him, "Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." And the Lord appointed a sign for Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him.
¹⁶ Then Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
¹⁷ Cain had relations with his wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city Enoch, after the name of his son.
¹⁸ Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad became the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael became the father of Methushael, and Methushael became the father of Lamech.