Genesis 4:15
“Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.
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Cross references
- Ezekiel 9:4 “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”
- Psalm 79:12 Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.
- Genesis 4:24 If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”