And the lorde sayde vnto Cain : why arte thou angry, and
why loureste thou ? wotest thou not yf thou do well thou
shalt receave it ? But and yf thou do euell, by and by
thy sinne lyeth open in the dore : notwithstondinge let it
be subdued unto the, and se thou rule it. And Cain
talked with Abel his brother.
And assoone as they were in the feldes Cain fell vpon
Abel his brother and slewe him. And the Lorde sayd
vnto Cain : where is Abel thy brother ? And he sayd : I
can not tell, am I my brothers keper ? And he sayde :
What haste thou done ? the voyce of thy brothers bloud
cryeth vnto me out of the erth. And now cursed be thou
as pertayninge to the erth, whiche openned her mouth to
receaue thy brothers bloud of thine hande. For when
thou tyllest the grounde she shall henceforth not geue
hyr power vnto the. A vagabunde and a rennagate shall
thou be vpon the erth.
And Cain sayd vnto the lorde : my sinne is greater,
then that it maye be forgeuen. Beholde thou easiest me
out this daye fr5 of the face of the erth, and frome thy
syght must I hyde my selfe, and I must be wandringe
and a vagabunde vpon the erth. Morouer whosoeuer
findeth me, will kill me. And the lorde sayd vnto him.
Not so, but whosoeuer slayeth Cain, shalbe punysshed vii.
folde. And the Lorde put a marks vpon Cain that no
man that founde hym, shulde kyll him. And Cain went
out from the face of the Lorde and dwelt in the lande
Nod, on the east syde of Eden.
