1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Genesis 4:16

And Cain went out from the face of the Lord, and dwelt as a fugitive on the earth at the east side of Eden.

A fugitive, according to his sentence. Hebrew nod, which the Septuagint have taken for a proper name. "In the land of Naid, over against Eden," (Haydock) or in the fields of Nyse, in Hyrcania, to the east of Eden and Armenia. (Calmet)