Genesis 4:15

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.

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  • Ezek 9:4 : 4 Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in its midst.
  • Ezek 9:6 : 6 kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.
  • Gen 4:24 : 24 If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times."
  • Ps 79:12 : 12 Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
  • Rev 14:9 : 9 Another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead, or on his hand,
  • Rev 14:11 : 11 The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.
  • Prov 6:31 : 31 but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.
  • Lev 26:18 : 18 "'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
  • Lev 26:21 : 21 "'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
  • Lev 26:24 : 24 then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
  • Lev 26:28 : 28 then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.
  • 1 Kgs 16:7 : 7 Moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of Yahweh against Baasha, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.
  • Ps 59:11 : 11 Don't kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
  • Hos 1:4 : 4 Yahweh said to him, "Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
  • Matt 26:52 : 52 Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 4:2-14
    13 verses
    84%

    2 Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

    3 As time passed, it happened that Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.

    4 Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,

    5 but he didn't respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

    6 Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

    7 If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."

    8 Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." It happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

    9 Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"

    10 Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

    11 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

    12 From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."

    13 Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.

    14 Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."

  • Gen 4:23-25
    3 verses
    80%

    23 Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.

    24 If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times."

    25 Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, "for God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."

  • Gen 4:16-17
    2 verses
    79%

    16 Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

    17 Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

  • Gen 9:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5 I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

    6 Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

  • 1 John 3:12
    73%

    12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

  • Num 35:19
    70%

    19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

  • Num 35:21
    70%

    21 or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

  • Lev 24:17
    69%

    17 "'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

  • Gen 9:25
    69%

    25 He said, "Canaan is cursed. He will be servant of servants to his brothers."

  • Ezek 35:6
    68%

    6 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

  • Exod 21:13
    68%

    13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

  • Deut 19:6
    68%

    6 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.