Genesis 4:10 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

¹⁰ And the Lord said, “What have you done? Listen; your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ And [the Lord] said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ The LORD said, “What did you do? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ And he said to him: "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from the land.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ And he said to him: What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth.

Genesis 4:10 Cross References

Genesis 18:20

Then the Lord said, “How great is the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah and how very grave their sin!

Genesis 3:13

Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”

Genesis 9:5

For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life.

2 Kings 9:26

‘For the blood of Naboth and for the blood of his children that I saw yesterday, says the Lord, I swear I will repay you on this very plot of ground.’ Now therefore lift him out and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the Lord.”

2 Chronicles 28:9

But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded; he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Because the Lord, the God of your ancestors, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have killed them in a rage that has reached up to heaven.

Job 16:18

“O earth, do not cover my blood; let my outcry find no resting place.

Job 24:12

From the city the dying groan, and the throat of the wounded cries for help; yet God pays no attention to their prayer.

Psalm 50:21

These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one just like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.

Psalm 72:14

From oppression and violence he redeems their life; and precious is their blood in his sight.

Psalm 9:12

For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Psalm 9:13

Be gracious to me, O Lord. See what I suffer from those who hate me; you are the one who lifts me up from the gates of death,

Exodus 3:7

Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings,

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his pleasant planting; he expected justice, but saw bloodshed; righteousness, but heard a cry!

Numbers 35:33

You shall not pollute the land in which you live; for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

Acts 5:3

“Ananias,” Peter asked, “why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the proceeds of the land?

Acts 5:9

Then Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to put the Spirit of the Lord to the test? Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

Deuteronomy 21:1

If, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess, a body is found lying in open country, and it is not known who struck the person down,

Hebrews 11:4

By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain's. Through this he received approval as righteous, God himself giving approval to his gifts; he died, but through his faith he still speaks.

Hebrews 12:24

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

James 5:4

Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Joshua 7:19

Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the Lord God of Israel and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.”

1 Samuel 13:11

Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul replied, “When I saw that the people were slipping away from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines were mustering at Michmash,