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me out this day from the face of the earth: ^[1] every one therefore that findeth me, shall kill me:

¹⁵ And the Lord said to him: No, it shall not so be: but whosoever shall kill Cain, shall be punished seven fold. And the Lord ^[2] set a mark upon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him.

¹⁶ And Cain went out from the face of the Lord, and dwelt as a fugitive on the earth at the east side of Eden.

¹⁷ And Cain knew ^[3] his wife, and she conceived, and brought forth Henoch: and ^[4] he built a city, and called the name thereof by the name of his son Henoch.

¹⁸ And Henoch begot Irad, and Irad begot Maviael, and Maviael begot Mathusael, and Mathusael begot Lamech.

¹⁹ Who took two wives, the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other Sella.

²⁰ And Ada brought forth Jabel, who was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of herdsmen.

²¹ And his brothers name was Jubal: he was the father of them that play on the harp and the organs.

²² Sella also brought forth Tubalcain, who was a hammerer and artificer in every work of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubalcain was Noema.

²³ And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella: Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my

↑ Ver. 14. Every one that findeth me shall kill me. His guilty conscience made him fear his own brothers, and nephews; of whom, by this time, there might be a good number upon the earth: which had now endured near 130 years; as may be gathered from Gen. v. 3. compared with Chap. iv. 25. Though in the compendious account given in the scripture only Cain and Abel are mentioned.
↑ Ver. 15. Set a mark, &c. The more common opinion of the interpreters of holy writ, supposes this mark to have been a trembling of the body; or a horror and consternation in his countenance.
↑ Ver. 17. His wife. She was a daughter of Adam, and Cain’s own sister: God dispensing with such marriages in the beginning of the world, as mankind could not otherwise be propagated.
↑ He built a city. viz. In process of time, when his race was multiplied, so as to be numerous enough to people it. For in the many hundred years he lived, his race might be multiplied even to millions.

[1] Ver. 14. Every one that findeth me shall kill me. His guilty conscience made him fear his own brothers, and nephews; of whom, by this time, there might be a good number upon the earth: which had now endured near 130 years; as may be gathered from Gen. v. 3. compared with Chap. iv. 25. Though in the compendious account given in the scripture only Cain and Abel are mentioned.

[2] Ver. 15. Set a mark, &c. The more common opinion of the interpreters of holy writ, supposes this mark to have been a trembling of the body; or a horror and consternation in his countenance.

[3] Ver. 17. His wife. She was a daughter of Adam, and Cain’s own sister: God dispensing with such marriages in the beginning of the world, as mankind could not otherwise be propagated.

[4] He built a city. viz. In process of time, when his race was multiplied, so as to be numerous enough to people it. For in the many hundred years he lived, his race might be multiplied even to millions.

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