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[Shelly Duffy]

IN GENESIS 4:14, WHO IS CAIN WORRIED WILL KILL HIM?
May 05, 2021 

Average reading time is about 5 minutes


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Because of his intense jealousy toward Abel, Cain rose up against his brother and killed him. Afterward, he tried to play innocent, but God already knew what had happened. He pronounced a curse on Cain: “When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and vagabond you shall be on the earth.” He was driven away. 

Cain then responds, “Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me” (verse 14). In this passage, Cain wasn’t concerned about his sin, but about his punishment. He was saying it was more than he could bear, and he feared people were going to hunt him down and kill him. 

Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel understood that they had been commanded to “be fruitful, and multiply” (Genesis 1:22). Cain knew that in the process of time, men and women would procreate and there would be thousands upon thousands of people in the world. Do you realize how many people could have been born in the 900 years from that time until the Flood? It was likely in the millions! 

Cain knew that he would be an outlaw—public enemy number one. He was anticipating that people would hunt him down and kill him as they multiplied and spread across the Earth. He made that statement because he was anticipating what was going to happen as the planet became more populated. 

Since we don’t have an exact timeline of the first family, it is also possible that Adam and Eve already had other grown children as well. Cain might have feared one of his brothers or sisters would immediately take revenge on behalf of their murdered brother. 

God, in His mercy, put a mark on Cain to protect him from any would-be avengers. 



KEY BIBLE TEXTS 
"When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth."
Genesis 4:12


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Shelley Duffy