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Cain hated Abel because God was pleased with Abel, but not with him. And one day when they were out in the field together Cain struck his brother and killed him. And the blood ran out of Abel's wounds and sank into the ground. After Cain had done this God spoke to him and asked him where Abel was. Then Cain told a lie and said that he did not know. But God saw all that Cain had done, and now, as a punishment for killing Abel, God said that Cain should have no home to live in; but he should wander about, and flee from one place to another, like a person who was all the time afraid that some one would kill him. And God set a mark on Cain. We do not know what sort of a mark it was, but it was something that other people could see, and when they saw it they knew it was wicked Cain who had killed his brother.
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