Genesis 4:12 - Easy To Read Version

¹² In the past, {you planted, and your plants grew well. But now} you will plant, and the ground will not help your plants grow. You will not have a home on the earth. You will wander from place to place.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth [in perpetual exile, a degraded outcast].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.

Common English Bible

¹² When you farm the fertile land, it will no longer grow anything for you, and you will become a roving nomad on the earth.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² When you work it, it will not give you its fruit; a vagrant and a fugitive shall you be upon the land."

Genesis 4:12 Cross References

Genesis 4:13

Then Cain said, “This punishment is more than I can bear!

Genesis 4:14

Look, you are forcing me to leave my land. I won’t be able to see you or be near you! I won’t have a home! I will be forced to wander from place to place on the earth. And whoever finds me will kill me.”

Psalm 107:34

God changed the fertile land\par and it became worthless salty land.\par Why? Because of the bad people\par who were living in that place.\par

Psalm 109:10

Let them lose their home\par and become beggars.\par

Proverbs 28:17

If a person is guilty of killing another person, then that person will never have peace. Don’t support that person.

Hosea 9:17

Those people will not listen to my God.\par So he will refuse to listen to them.\par And they will wander among the nations\par without a home.\par

Joel 1:10

The fields are ruined.\par Even the ground is crying.\par Why? Because the grain is destroyed;\par the new wine is dried up,\par and the olive oil is gone.\par

Leviticus 26:17

I will be against you, so your enemies will defeat you. Those enemies hate you, and they will rule over you. You will run away even when no one is chasing you.

Leviticus 26:20

You will work hard, but it will not help. Your land will not give any crops, and your trees will not grow their fruit.

Leviticus 26:36

The survivors [449] will lose their courage in the land of their enemies. They will be scared of everything. They will run around like a leaf being blown by the wind. They will run like someone is chasing them with a sword. They will fall even when no one is chasing them!

Romans 8:20

Everything God made was changed to be like it was worth nothing. It did not want to change, but God decided to change it. But there was this hope:

Deuteronomy 28:15

“But if you don’t listen to things the Lord your God tells you—if you don’t obey all his commands and laws that I tell you today—then all these bad things will happen to you: