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εἰ ἐκβαλεῖς με σήμερον ἀπὸ προσώπου τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ προσώπου σου κρυβήσομαι, καὶ ἔσομαι στένων καὶ τρέμων ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς· καὶ πᾶς ὁ εὑρίσκων με ἀποκτενεῖ με.
Cain's fear names three losses at once: the ground (v.12's curse), God's own πρόσωπον, "face/presence" (an echo of Adam and Eve hiding from that same presence in 3:8, and of Cain's own "fallen face" in vv.5-6, now turned back on him as exile from another's face), and finally his life, since "whoever finds me will kill me" assumes a populated world the narrative has not yet accounted for — one of Genesis's oldest and most-debated puzzles (who is there to kill him?).
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