but with Cain and his offering he was not pleased. So Cain became very angry, and his expression was downcast.

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

But the Lord said to him, “All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much.” Then the Lord put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.

Then Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is too great to endure!

If Cain is to be avenged seven times as much, then Lamech seventy-seven times!”

At the designated time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering to the Lord.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?

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

Now the man had marital relations with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, “I have created a man just as the Lord did!”

Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” And he replied, “I don’t know! Am I my brother’s guardian?”

Cain had marital relations with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was building a city, and he named the city after his son Enoch.

And Adam had marital relations with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth, saying, “God has given me another child in place of Abel because Cain killed him.”