The LORD said to him, *Therefore whoever slays Kayin, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.* the LORD appointed a sign for Kayin, lest any finding him should strike him.
Moreover by the prophet Yehu the son of Chanani came the word of the LORD against Ba`sha, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Yarov`am, and because he struck him.
The LORD said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Yerushalayim, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst of it.
kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.
The LORD said to him, *Call his name Yizre`el; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Yizre`el on the house of Yehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Yisra'el to cease.
The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.
Another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, *If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead, or on his hand,