OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 4:13

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Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

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Verse 13. My iniquity, and so forth Like Judas, Cain despairs. The Rabbins make him complain of the rigour of God’s judgment, “My sin (or punishment) is too great to be borne.” I must then be driven from the land of my nativity, from the society of my brethren and parents, from thy presence, for ever. Why do I then live? Let the first man I meet, kill me. Liran.

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