Genesis 4:4-16

⁴And Abel also brought of the first born of his sheep and of his fatlings, and God looked upon Abel and his gifts,

⁵but Cain and his sacrifices he regarded not, and Cain was exceedingly sorrowful and his countenance fell.

⁶And the Lord God said to Cain, Why are you become very sorrowful and why is your countenance fallen?

⁷Hast you not sinned if you have brought it rightly, but not rightly divided it? be still, to you shall be his submission, and you shall rule over him.

⁸And Cain said to Abel his brother, Let us go out into the plain; and it came to pass that when they were in the plain Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and killed him.

⁹And the Lord God said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? and he said, I know not, am I my brother's keeper?

¹⁰And the Lord said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood cries to me out of the ground.

¹¹And now you are cursed from the earth which has opened her mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

¹²When you till the earth, then it shall not continue to give its strength to you: you shall be groaning and trembling on the earth.

¹³And Cain said to the Lord God, My crime is too great for me to be forgiven.

¹⁴If you cast me out this day from the face of the earth, and I shall be hidden from your presence, and I shall be groaning and trembling upon the earth, then it will be that any one that finds me shall kill me.

¹⁵And the Lord God said to him, Not so, any one that slays Cain shall suffer sevenfold vengeance; and the Lord God set a mark upon Cain that no one that found him might kill him.

¹⁶So Cain went forth from the presence of God and lived in the land of Nod over against Edem.