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.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Lord said unto him,.... In order to satisfy him, and make him easy in this respect, that: he need not fear an immediate or bodily death, which was showing him great clemency and lenity; or in…
Adam Clarke
Behold, thou hast driven me out - In Gen 4:11, Gen 4:12, God states two parts of Cain's punishment:
1. The ground was cursed, so that it was not to yield any adequate recompense for his most careful…
We have here a further account of the proceedings against Cain.
I. Here is Cain's complaint of the sentence passed upon him, as hard and severe. Some make him to speak the language of despair, and…
Cambridge Bible
Behold, thou hast, &c. Cain accepts Jehovah's sentence as a banishment from the cultivated ground. "And from thy face shall I be hid," Cain recognizes that banishment from the land, in which Jehovah's…
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