Genesis 4:11
Now cursed are you from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
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10Yahweh said, “What have you done? Your brother's blood is calling out to me from the ground.
Cross References
Genesis 3:14Yahweh God said to the serpent, 1 “Because you have done this, 1 cursed are you alone among all the livestock 1 and all the beasts of the field. 1 It is on your stomach that you will go, 1 and it is dust that you will eat all the days of your life. 1
Deuteronomy 27:16'May the man be cursed who dishonors his father or his mother.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
Deuteronomy 29:19When that person hears the words of this curse, he will bless himself in his heart and say, 'I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This would destroy the wet together with the dry.
Job 31:38If my land ever cries out against me, 1 and its furrows weep together, 1
Galatians 3:10All who rely on the works of the law are under a curse; and so it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all the things written in the book of the law, and do them.”
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 →