Genesis 4:14

Webster's Bible (1833)

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."

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  • Num 35:19 : 19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.
  • Job 15:20-24 : 20 The wicked man travails with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. 21 A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him. 22 He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness, He is waited for by the sword. 23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. 24 Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
  • Prov 28:1 : 1 The wicked flee when no one pursues; But the righteous are as bold as a lion.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, So that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.
  • Num 35:21 : 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.
  • Num 35:27 : 27 and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,
  • Deut 28:65 : 65 Among these nations shall you find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;
  • Gen 4:15-16 : 15 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. 16 Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
  • Gen 9:5-6 : 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, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.
  • Jer 52:3 : 3 For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
  • Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they will be like the morning cloud, And like the dew that passes away early, Like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, And like the smoke out of the chimney.
  • Matt 25:41 : 41 Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
  • Matt 25:46 : 46 These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
  • 2 Thess 1:9 : 9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
  • Lev 26:17 : 17 I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.
  • Lev 26:36 : 36 "'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when no one pursues.
  • Num 17:12-13 : 12 The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone. 13 Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tent of Yahweh, dies: shall we perish all of us?
  • 2 Sam 14:7 : 7 Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is brought down in his calamity, But in death, the righteous has a refuge.
  • Isa 8:22 : 22 and they shall look to the earth, and see, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 They tell God, 'Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
  • Ps 51:11-14 : 11 Don't throw me from your presence, And don't take your holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit. 13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you. 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
  • Ps 109:10 : 10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
  • Ps 109:12 : 12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

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  • Gen 4:15-16
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    15 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.

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

  • Gen 4:5-13
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    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.

  • Gen 4:23-24
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    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."

  • Gen 3:8-10
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    8 They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

    9 Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"

    10 The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."

  • 7 Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.

  • Gen 9:5-6
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    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, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.

  • 23 Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

  • 13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • 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.

  • Gen 4:2-3
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    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.

  • 24 Why hide you your face, And hold me for your enemy?

  • 19 It shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his head, and we shall be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be on him.

  • 29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'

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    11 Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn't kill you, know you and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt after my life to take it.

    12 Yahweh judge between me and you, and Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be on you.

  • 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

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