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a-venge

 (-venj)v. tr. a-venged, a-veng-ing, a-veng-es. 1. To inflict a punishment or penalty in return for; revenge: avenge a murder. 2. To take vengeance on behalf of: avenged their wronged parents.[Middle English avengen, from Old French avengier : a-, to (from Latin ad-. See AD-) + vengier, to vindicate, from Latin vindicare, to claim. See VINDICATE.]--a-veng'er n. --a-veng'ing-ly adv.

 

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And God said,

Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed,

 

and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind,

whose seed

is

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sin lieth at the door.

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in

itself,

 

upon the earth:

 

and

it

was so.

 

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And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam,

and he slept:

and he took one of his ribs, . . .

And the rib,

which

the

 

Lord God

 

had taken from man,

made he a woman,

 

and brought her unto the man.

 

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one

of

his ribs,

 

 

And Adam

knew

Eve

his wife;

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And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river,

 

is her revenue;

and she is a mart of nations.

 

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and she

conceived,

 

and

bare Cain,

 

and said,

 

I

have gotten

a man

from the Lord.

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but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

 

But unto Cain

 

and to

 

his

offering

 

he

had not respect.

 

And Cain

was very wroth,

 

and his

countenance fell

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And now art thou cursed from the earth,

which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

 

 

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And God said,

 

Let the

earth

bring forth

grass,

the herb

 

yielding seed,

 

and

the

fruit

tree

yielding fruit

after

his kind,

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But there

 

went up a mist

from

the earth,

 

and watered the whole face of the ground.

 

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And God

said,

 

 

Let us

make man in our image, after our likeness:

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And I will give children to be their princes,

and babes shall rule over them.

 

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour:

the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying,

Thou hast clothing,

be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

 

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Did not he that made me in the womb make him?

 

and did not one fashion us in the womb?

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For

it is

a fire

that

consumeth to destruction,

 

and would root out all mine increase.

If

I

 did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

What then shall

I do

when God riseth up?

 

 and when he visiteth,

what shall I answer him?

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So God

created man

in

his

own image,

 

in the image of

God

created he him;

male and female

created he them.

 

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And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon

Adam,

 

and

he slept:

 

 and

he

took one of his ribs,

 

and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

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For God,

said

 

she,

hath appointed

 

me

another seed instead of Abel, . . .

 

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And the rib,

which the Lord God had taken from man,

 

made he a woman,

and

brought her unto

the man.

 

And Adam said,

 

This

is

now

 

bone

of

my bones,

 

and flesh

of

my flesh:

she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

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And Adam

knew

Eve his wife;

 

and she

conceived,

 

and

bare Cain,

 

and said,

 

I

have gotten

a man

from the Lord.

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but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

 

But unto Cain

 

and to

 

his

offering

 

he

had not respect.

 

And Cain

was very wroth,

 

and

his

countenance fell.

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And she again bare his brother Abel.

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And Abel was a keeper of sheep,

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And Abel,

 

he also

brought of the firstlings

of

his flock

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But there

went up a mist from the earth,

and watered the whole face of the ground.

 

*

 

and

of

the fat

thereof.

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And the Lord had respect unto Abel

and to his offering:

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And every plant of the field before it was in the earth,

and every herb of the field before it grew:

for the

Lord God

had not caused it to rain upon the earth,

and there was not a man to till the ground.

But there went up a mist from the earth,

and watered the whole face of the ground.

 

**

Woe unto them that join house to house,

that lay

field to field,

till

there

be no place,

that they

may be

placed alone

in the

midst

of

 

the earth!

 

 

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and it came to pass, when they were in the field,

that Cain rose up

against

Abel

 

his brother,

 

and slew him.

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And the Lord Adam said unto Cain,

 

Where

is

Abel thy brother?

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And he said,

 

I

heard thy voice in the garden,

 

and

I

was afraid,

 

because

 

I

was naked;

 

and

I

hid myself.

 

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And he said,

 

I know not:

 

Am

I

my

brother's keeper?

 

*

and he said,

 Am I

In

God's stead,

who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the

womb?

 

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And Cain said unto

the Lord,

My

punishment is greater than

I

can bear.

 

Behold,

thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth;

and

from

thy face

shall

 

I

be hid;

 

And

I

shall be a fugitive

 

and

a vagabond in the earth;

and

it shall come to pass,

that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

 

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,

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I

have sinned;

 

what shall I do unto thee,

 

O thou preserver of men?

why hast thou set me as a mark against thee,

so

that

I am

a

burden to myself?

 

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lest any finding him should kill him.

 

And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived,

 

 

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