Genesis 4:12
When you cultivate the ground, it won't produce crops for you. You'll be always on the run, wandering all over the earth.”
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11Consequently you are more cursed than the ground because you soaked it with your brother's blood.
13“My punishment is more than I can take,” Cain replied.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17He told Adam, “Because you did what your wife told you, and ate fruit from the tree after I ordered you, ‘Don't eat fruit from this tree,’ the ground is now cursed because of you. You will have to work painfully hard to grow food from it throughout your whole life.
Leviticus 26:20Your strength will be completely wasted because your land won't produce crops, and your trees won't produce fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:23The sky above you will be like bronze, and the earth beneath you will be like iron.
Psalms 107:34Fruitful ground becomes a salty wasteland because of the wickedness of those living there.
Proverbs 28:17Someone guilty of murder will go on running away from it until they die. Don't try and stop them.
Hosea 9:17My God will reject you because you have not listened to him, and you will become homeless wanderers among the nations.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 4:10-13
Cain's Punishment. ( b. c. 3875.) 9 And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? 10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. 11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; 12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. We have here a… Read the whole commentary →