24 And He said to him, "Where is your brother?"
To which he answered and said, "I know not."
Then the Creator said to him, "Be trembling and quaking."
25 Then Cain trembled and became terrified; and
through this sign did God make him an example before all
the creation, as the murderer of his brother. Also did God
bring trembling and terror over him, that he might see the
peace in which he was at first, and see also the trembling
and terror he endured at the last; so that he might humble
himself before God, and repent of his sin, and seek the
peace that he enjoyed at first.
26 And in the word of God that said, "I will put seven
punishments on anyone who kills Cain," God was not seeking
to kill Cain with the sword, but He sought to make him die
of fasting, and praying and crying by hard rule, until the
time that he was delivered from his sin.
27 And the seven punishments are the seven generations
during which God awaited Cain for the murder of his brother.
28 But as to Cain, ever since he had killed his
brother, he could find no rest in any place; but went back
to Adam and Eve, trembling, terrified, and defiled with blood.
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