Genesis 4:14

"Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass, that whosoever findeth me shall slay me."

The critics have had a field day with this passage. The mention of Cain's fear that someone would kill him led them to conclude that this episode is a myth or legend from a much later period after the world was populated, alleging that some redactor placed it here where it allegedly contradicts what was written in the preceding chapter. Of course, if such a thing really happened, the "redactor was nothing but an ignorant blunderer."[20] Of course, the true explanation was cited under Genesis 4:2, above.