OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 4:16

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16

Cain left the LORD’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

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Verse 16. A fugitive, according to his sentence. Hebrew nod, which the Septuagint have taken for a proper name. “In the land of Naid, over against Eden,” ( Bible.) or in the fields of Nyse, in Hyrcania, to the east of Eden and Armenia. Calmet.

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