Genesis 4:11

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“Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.”

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BSBPD

“Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and now, cursed <FI>art<Fi> thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Genesis 4:11 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 3:14So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
  2. Genesis 4:14Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
  3. Deuteronomy 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  4. Deuteronomy 28:15If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
  5. Deuteronomy 29:19because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
  6. Job 16:18O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
  7. Job 31:38if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,
  8. Isaiah 26:21For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.
  9. Galatians 3:10All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
  10. Revelation 12:16But the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth to swallow up the river that had poured from the dragon’s mouth.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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