And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood
crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth,
which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy
hand; when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto
thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the
earth. And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I
can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of
the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive
and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one
that findeth me shall slay me. And the LORD said unto him, Therefore
whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And
the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land
of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain's wife bare Enoch: and he builded
a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son,
Enoch. And from Enoch was descended Lamech.
And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and
the name of the other Zillah. And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of
such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. And his brother's
name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and
organ. And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every
artificer in brass and iron.
And Eve again bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she,
hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. And to
Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos.
And from Enos was descended Enoch. And Enoch walked with God: and he
was not; for God took him. And from Enoch was descended Methuselah, who
lived nine hundred sixty and nine years, and had a son Lamech, whose
son was Noah.
CHAPTER 5
THE FLOOD
AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the
earth, that GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the
earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will
destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man,
and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it
repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of
the LORD.
[Sidenote: Genesis 6]
Noah was a just man and walked with God. And Noah begat three sons,
Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt;
for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
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