Genesis 4:15
And LORD said to him, Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And LORD appointed a sign for Cain, lest any who finds him should smite him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
16And Cain went out from the presence of LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:18And if for these things ye will not yet hearken to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
Leviticus 26:24then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will smite you, even I, seven times for your sins.
1 Kings 16:7And moreover the word of LORD came against Baasha by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of LORD, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands in be
Psalms 79:12and render to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached thee, O LORD,
Ezekiel 9:4And LORD said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and who cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst of it.
Hosea 1:4And LORD said to him, Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 4:14-16
Cain's Complaint. ( b. c. 3875.) 13 And Cain said unto the Lord , My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. 15 And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill… Read the whole commentary →