12 When you work it, it will not give you its fruit; a vagrant and a fugitive shall you be upon the land.'
13 And Cain said to the Lord: 'My iniquity is too great to deserve kindness.
14 Behold, you have cast me out this day before the face of the earth, and from your face I will be hidden; and I will be a vagrant and a fugitive on the earth. Therefore, anyone who finds me will kill me.'
15 And the Lord said to him: 'By no means will it be so; rather, whoever would kill Cain, will be punished sevenfold.' And the Lord placed a seal upon Cain, so that anyone who found him would not put him to death.
16 And so Cain, departing from the face of the Lord, lived as a fugitive on the earth, toward the eastern region of Eden.
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