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NASB	Genesis 4:13 Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is too great to bear!
AMPLIFIED 2015	Genesis 4:13 Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.

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Bible Question: In Genesis 4:13-15, Cain is speaking with God about his punishment for killing his brother Abel. He say's that his punishment is to great for him to bear and so forth.
Cain's concern becomes what will happen to him if God banishes him. He goes on to express concern about becoming a vagabond on the earth. He worries about his demise if someone else finds him and wants to slay him.
He is one of the sons of Adam and Eve, the first two breathed into and or created of God and placed in the Garden of Eden.
Who was Cain afraid of being killed by? Was he not one of the sons born of Adam and Eve, the first humans God created?

Bible Answer: Since we have no time frame and assuming there was intermarriage ( brother sister, uncle niece) there are estimates that as many as 100,000 people could have been alive by this time. Again this is an assumption not documented in scripture.
Plus Cain realized that before his death many more people would be on earth, so his fear was justified.

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