Genesis 4 – Line 00092

LINE RENDERING FILE

YOU ARE WELCOME HERE

This isn’t a lesson. It’s a space. Come as you are. Let the line speak to you.

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INTRO

This file gives a minimal English phrasing of the original line, built directly from the Line Source File.

It’s readable, but not smoothed. Nothing is added beyond what’s traceable.

RENDERED LINE

When you work the ground, it will no longer yield her strength to you. A wanderer and a fugitive you will be in the land.

RENDERING NOTES

“When you work the ground” translates כִּי תַעֲבֹד אֶת־הָאֲדָמָה; preserving conditional logic with direct object marker.

“It will no longer yield” captures לֹא־תֹסֵף תֵּת; combining future negation with infinitive construction.

“Her strength” (כֹּחָהּ) retains feminine suffix referring to adamah; personified as withholding energy.

“To you” (לָךְ) marks directional loss; Cain remains active but fruitless.

“A wanderer and a fugitive” translates נָע וָנָד; poetic hendiadys emphasizing dislocation.

“You will be in the land” (תִּהְיֶה בָאָרֶץ) finalizes consequence with existential shift: dislocated within presence.

INSERTION / HELPER WORD TRACKING

“It will” added for clarity in future tense rendering.

“Her” retained directly from Hebrew suffix; no interpretive insertion.

“A” added before “wanderer” and “fugitive” to convey role categories in English.

Sequence mirrors original structure without smoothing.

CONTEXTUAL PLACEMENT

Expands the curse from v.11 into active consequence.

Cain is not removed from the land; but rendered incapable of anchoring to it.

Line introduces the dual exile: from soil productivity and from social rootedness.

STRUCTURAL ALIGNMENT NOTES

Builds upon Genesis 3:17–19; laboring the ground post-transgression.

“Na va-nad” mirrors poetic pairings in other exile texts (e.g., Ishmael, Israel’s wanderings).

Continues judicial speech from God; three-part decree: guilt revealed (v.10), curse delivered (v.11), function severed (v.12).

CAUTIONARY REMINDER

This rendering is provided for orientation only.

It draws from the Line Source File and reflects the structure of the original text as faithfully as possible, while adapting to minimal English phrasing.

Interpretive meaning is not asserted. For lexical and grammatical details, consult the Line Source File.