Genesis 4:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹¹ And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ And now you are cursed by reason of the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's [shed] blood from your hand.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;

Common English Bible

¹¹ You are now cursed from the ground that opened its mouth to take your brother’s blood from your hand.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Now, therefore, you will be cursed upon the land, which opened its mouth and received the blood of your brother at your hand.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ Now, therefore, cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath opened her mouth, and received the blood of thy brother at thy hand.

Genesis 4:11 Cross References

Genesis 3:14

The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above all wild animals; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

Genesis 4:14

Behold, thou hast driven me this day away from the ground; and from thy face I shall be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will slay me.”

Genesis 5:29

and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground which the Lord has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands.”

Job 16:18

“O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.

Isaiah 26:21

For behold, the Lord is coming forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed upon her, and will no more cover her slain.

Galatians 3:10

For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be every one who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, and do them.”

Revelation 12:16

But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon had poured from his mouth.