Genesis 4:11

Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood + 4:11. (9-11) Quoted in Matt 23:35; Luke 11:51 from your hand.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

10Adonai said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

12From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”

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Cross References

Genesis 3:14Adonai God said to the serpent, 1 “Because you have done this, 2 you are cursed above all livestock, 2 and above every animal of the field. 1 You shall go on your belly 2 and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. 1

Deuteronomy 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘ Amen ·So be it·.’

Deuteronomy 29:19and it happen, when he sh'ma ·hears obeys· the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.”

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 →

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