Then the Lord said to him, “Not so! Whoever kills Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance.” And the Lord put a mark on Cain, so that no one who came upon him would kill him.

“This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you.

You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.

“This shall be your northern boundary: from the Great Sea you shall mark out your line to Mount Hor;

from Mount Hor you shall mark it out to Lebo-hamath, and the outer limit of the boundary shall be at Zedad;

“You shall mark out your eastern boundary from Hazar-enan to Shepham,

Property Boundaries

“You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, set up by former generations, on the property that will be allotted to you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who moves a neighbor’s boundary marker.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though I shot at a mark.

So he changed his behavior before them; he pretended to be mad when in their presence. He scratched marks on the doors of the gate and let his spittle run down his beard.

He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.

Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is posterity for the peaceable.

Mark this, then, you who forget God, or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to deliver.

ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.

You have made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting.

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?

when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

Who has measured the waters of the sea in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

The carpenter stretches a line, marks it out with a stylus, fashions it with planes, and marks it with a compass; he makes it in human form, with human beauty, to be set up in a shrine.

Set up road markers for yourself; make yourself signposts; consider well the highway, the road by which you went. Return, O virgin Israel, return to these your cities.

And the women said, “Indeed we will go on making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her; do you think that we made cakes for her, marked with her image, and poured out libations to her without our husbands’ being involved?”

he bent his bow and set me as a mark for his arrow.

and said to him, “Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of those who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”

Cut down old men, young men and young women, little children and women, but touch no one who has the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were in front of the house.

Mortal, mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them shall issue from the same land. And make a signpost; make it for a fork in the road leading to a city;