Samuel Berman offers an English translation of Midrash Tanchuma Bereshit 10, commenting on Genesis 4:15's mention of Cain's "mark" or "sign."
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Samuel A. Berman, ed., Midrash Tanhuma-Yelammedenu: An English Translation of Genesis and Exodus from the Printed Version of Tanhuma-Yelammedenu with an Introduction, Notes, and Indexes (Hoboken, NJ: KTAV Publishing, 1996), Bereshit 10, p. 31, accessed December 22, 2022
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- Ktav Publishing House
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- Unknown, Samuel A. Berman
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- General Public
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There are some who say that the word "Sabbath" was placed as a sign upon his countenance, as it is said: My Sabbaths, for it is the sign between Me and you, throughout your generations (Exod. 3:13), and that just as the Sabbath pleaded in behalf of Adam,35 it pleaded in behalf of Cain. Others, however, insist that He fastened a horn upon his forehead.36
35. The Sabbath pleaded with God to spare Adam's life lest the glory and the sanctity of the Sabbath be impaired by his death.
36. Bereshit lists seven signs placed upon Cain.
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