What does Genesis 4:15 mean?

God wanted to be able to torture Cain for a long, long time. If someone else killed him, he would miss out on all the sadistic fun. God is a big fan of torturing and killing people - via plagues, drowning, slaughtering, commanding his followers to rip open pregnant women and to stone people to death, etc. Of course, he probably would have had just as much fun torturing Cain's killer sevenfold.

Gen 4:15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

Ingenuity.

The interesting thing here is not the usage of the number seven, but the fact that if Adam and Eve were the first people and Cain and Able their kids, then where the heck did these other people come from? Adam and Eve did not have any More children until after this.

The expression "seven times your punishment" means that the person's punishment would be complete, thorough, and much worse than that received by Cain for his sin. God did not like killing. This was his way to try to stop it.

Cain was to suffer God's wrath for what he done and God didn't want other people to do the same as Cain did to his brother. Two wrongs don't make a right.

seven times more than on Cain; that is, he shall be exceedingly punished; vengeance shall be taken on him in a very visible manner, to a very great degree; the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan are

``unto or through seven generations;''

the meaning of which is, that the slayer of Cain should not only be punished in his own person, but in his posterity, even unto seven generations; and not as Jarchi and Aben Ezra interpret it, that God deferred his vengeance on Cain unto seven generations, and at the end of them took vengeance on him by Lamech, one of his own posterity, by whom he is supposed by that Jewish writer to be slain:

Cains punishment for Killing Able was life long! YOU failed to quote the Whole Verse, and your answer is there!

The mark that was put on him was to keep him from being Killed on purpose to escape his punishment!

(Gen 4:13) And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

When reading consider what is said in the entire chapter!

Thanks, RR

more mythical nonsense.

you'll notice that in Genesis, god told adam that if he ate from the tree of good and evil, he woudl surely die for it.

then adam ate from that tree. yet he continued living.

so, god lied...god lied, even tho he knew the future and knew adam would eat from that tree. he told adam he'd die for eating from the tree, and he didn't.

what nonsense, that silly book...

Good question, I realy don't know.

to show god has compassion for sinners?