Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground.
I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.
Whoever finds me will kill me.”
The LORD said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.”
The LORD appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.
Cain left the LORD’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.