i.e. He was banished from the place of God's special presence and habitation, from the society of his father, and of the only church which God had upon earth; and dwelt in the land of Nod, in the land which was afterwards called Nod, from Cain's unsettled condition, because he continued wandering hither and thither in it.
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Genesis 4:16
16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.