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.
American Heritage Talking Dictionary
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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,
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.
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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.
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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?
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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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