Genesis 4:16

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

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  • Jer 23:39 : 39 So I will carry you far off and throw you away. I will send both you and the city I gave to you and to your ancestors out of my sight.
  • 2 Kgs 24:20 : 20 What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the LORD’s anger; he finally threw them out of his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
  • Jer 52:3 : 3 What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the LORD’s anger when he drove them out of his sight. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
  • Gen 3:8 : 8 The Judgment Oracles of God at the Fall Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the orchard.
  • Gen 4:14 : 14 Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”
  • Exod 20:18 : 18 All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking– and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.
  • 2 Kgs 13:23 : 23 But the LORD had mercy on them and felt pity for them. He extended his favor to them because of the promise he had made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day.
  • Job 2:7 : 7 Job’s Integrity in Suffering So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and he afflicted Job with a malignant ulcer from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
  • Job 20:17 : 17 He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.
  • Ps 5:11 : 11 But may all who take shelter in you be happy! May they continually shout for joy! Shelter them so that those who are loyal to you may rejoice!
  • Ps 68:2 : 2 As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.
  • Matt 18:20 : 20 For where two or three are assembled in my name, I am there among them.”
  • Luke 13:26 : 26 Then you will begin to say,‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’
  • John 1:3 : 3 All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created.
  • John 1:10 : 10 He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him.
  • 1 Thess 1:9 : 9 For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
  • Job 1:12 : 12 So the LORD said to Satan,“All right then, everything he has is in your power. Only do not extend your hand against the man himself!” So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 4:17-18
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    17The Beginning of Civilization Cain was intimate 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.

    18To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael. Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.

  • Gen 4:5-15
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    5but with Cain and his offering he was not pleased. So Cain became very angry, and his expression was downcast.

    6Then the LORD said to Cain,“Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?

    7Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it.”

    8Cain 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.

    9Then the LORD said to Cain,“Where is your brother Abel?” And he replied,“I don’t know! Am I my brother’s guardian?”

    10But the LORD said,“What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

    11So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

    12When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”

    13Then Cain said to the LORD,“My punishment is too great to endure!

    14Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”

    15But 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.

  • Gen 4:1-3
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    75%

    1The Story of Cain and Abel Now the man was intimate 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!”

    2Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.

    3At the designated time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering to the LORD.

  • Gen 4:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    24If Cain is to be avenged seven times as much, then Lamech seventy-seven times!”

    25And Adam was intimate 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.”

  • Gen 3:23-24
    2 verses
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    23So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

    24When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.

  • 1 John 3:12
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    12not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

  • Gen 2:15
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    15The LORD God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

  • Gen 3:8-9
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    8The Judgment Oracles of God at the Fall Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the orchard.

    9But the LORD God called to the man and said to him,“Where are you?”

  • Gen 2:8
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    8The LORD God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.

  • Gen 2:10
    68%

    10Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams.

  • Gen 5:13
    67%

    13Kenan lived 840 years after he became the father of Mahalalel, and he had other sons and daughters.

  • Gen 5:4
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    4The length of time Adam lived after he became the father of Seth was 800 years; during this time he had other sons and daughters.

  • Gen 8:16
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    16“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.