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Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”
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Verse 14. Every one that findeth me, shall kill me. His guilty conscience made him fear his own brothers, and nephews; of whom, by this time, there might be a good number upon the earth: which had now endured near 130 years; as may be gathered from Genesis 5:3, compared with Chap. 4:25, though in the compendious account given in the Scripture, only Cain and Abel are mentioned. Challoner.—Cain is little concerned about any thing but the loss of life. Menochius.
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