Shiki v1 seishin's essay

Shiki Novel Translations 0.1 - Seishin's Essay

Bible quotes are taken from the English King James version rather than translated due to propriety, but as I can see the argument for a re-translation even of a translated, famous, quoted work, here's a translation from Japanese (from which language their bible is translated I don't know) for good measure:

---End Translator's Intro---

To 'Salem's Lot'

Jehova spoke down, "What hast thou done?

thus art thou cursed and banished from this land.

by none other than your hand.

and a fugitive and a vagrant shall you become."

――Book of Genesis, Chapter 4 (Translated from the Japanese Edition)

And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

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