Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain. And she said, "I have given birth to a man with [the help of] Yahweh."

If you do well {will I not accept you}? But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. And its desire [is] for you, but you must rule over it."

Then Cain said to his brother Abel, ["Let us go out into the field."] And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

And Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment [is] greater than [I can] bear.

So now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand.

And to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.

Then Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice; O wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, Even a young man for injuring me.

When you till the ground {it shall no longer yield its strength to you}. You shall be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth."

Look, you have driven me out today from the face of the ground, and from your face I must hide. I will be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth, and it will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."

Then Zillah also gave birth to Tubal-Cain who forged all [kinds of] tools of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain [was] Naamah.

And Lamech took to himself two wives. The name of the first [was] Adah, and the name of the second [was] Zillah.

And the name of his brother [was] Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and wind instruments.

And Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and [those who have] livestock.

If Cain is avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech [will be avenged] seventy and seven [times].

And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. And when he built a city {he named the city after his son, Enoch}.

And {in the course of time} Cain brought an offering from the fruit of the ground to Yahweh,

Then Yahweh said to Cain, "Where [is] Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"

And Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why is your face fallen?

{Then she bore} his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain became a tiller of the ground.

And he said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.

And as for Seth, he also fathered a son, and he called his name Enosh. At that time he began to call on the name of Yahweh.

And Cain went out from the presence of Yahweh, and he settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

but to Cain and to his offering he did not look with favor. And Cain became very angry, and his face fell.

Then Adam knew his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. And she called his name Seth, for [she said] "God has appointed to me another child in the place of Abel, because Cain killed him."

and Abel also brought [an offering] from {the choicest firstlings of his flock}. And Yahweh looked with favor to Abel and to his offering,

Then Yahweh said to him, "Therefore, whoever kills Cain will be avenged sevenfold." Then Yahweh put a sign on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him.