Genesis 4:11 - The Scriptures 2009

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

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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

And יהוה Elohim said to the naḥash, “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all livestock and more than every beast of the field. On your belly you are to go, and eat dust all the days of your life.

Genesis 4:14

See, You have driven me from the face of the ground today, and I am hidden from Your face. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and it shall be that anyone who finds me kills me.

Genesis 5:29

and called his name Noaḥ, saying, “This one does comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which יהוה has cursed.”

Job 16:18

O earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry have no resting place!

Isaiah 26:21

For look, יהוה is coming out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their crookedness. And the earth shall disclose her blood, and no longer cover her killed ones.

Galatians 3:10

For as many as are of works of Torah are under the curse, for it has been written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all that has been written in the Book of the Torah, to do them.”

Revelation 12:16

And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.