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Genesis 4:15-17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Genesis 4:15-17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 Then the Lord said to him, “Not so![a] Whoever kills Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance.” And the Lord put a mark on Cain, so that no one who came upon him would kill him.(A) 16 Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and settled in the land of Nod,[b] east of Eden.
Beginnings of Civilization
17 Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch, and he built a city and named it Enoch after his son Enoch.(B)
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