“ Cain taught his descendants to do everything that God hated: pride, boastful speech, self-adulation, slander, false accusations, and even swearing false oaths. Cain ★ 4,9 ♥ 116 ⧉ ♡
“ Adam was intimate with Eve his wife and she conceived and bore a son named Cain. She said, “I have obtained a son from the Lord. Cain ★ 4,7 ♥ 64 ⧉ ♡
“ Then the Lord asked Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He answered, “I do not know. Am I to be my brother’s keeper? Cain ★ 4,8 ♥ 59 ⧉ ♡
“ But the Lord told him, “Not so! Whoever kills Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance.” The Lord placed a mark upon Cain, so that no one who might meet him would strike him. Cain ★ 4,8 ♥ 203 ⧉ ♡
“ Now may you be cursed far from the soil that drank the blood of your brother that you have shed. When you till the soil, it shall not be fruitful for you. You shall be a fugitive and wanderer upon the earth. Cain ★ 4,9 ♥ 158 ⧉ ♡
“ Wisdom preserved the first-formed father of the world / when he alone had been created. / She delivered him from his transgression / and gave him the power to rule over all things. / But when the wicked man forsook her in his wrath, / he perished because of his fratricidal fury. Cain ★ 4,9 ♥ 194 ⧉ ♡
“ Lamech said to his wives, / “Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice; / wives of Lamech, lend an ear to what I say. / I have killed a man for wounding me / and a boy, for bruising me. / If Cain received a vengeance of sevenfold, / Lamech will receive one of seventy-sevenfold. Cain ★ 5,0 ♥ 156 ⧉ ♡
“ The Lord therefore said to Cain, “Why are you angry and why has your countenance fallen? If you do what is right, will you not be able to hold up your head? But if you do what is wrong, sin is crouching at your door. It seeks to dominate you, but you can overcome it. Cain ★ 4,8 ♥ 190 ⧉ ♡