Genesis 4:11

Good News Translation

You are placed under a curse and can no longer farm the soil. It has soaked up your brother's blood as if it had opened its mouth to receive it when you killed him.

Cross References

Genesis 3:14

Then the Lord God said to the snake, “You will be punished for this; you alone of all the animals must bear this curse: From now on you will crawl on your belly, and you will have to eat dust as long as you live.

Genesis 4:14

You are driving me off the land and away from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth, and anyone who finds me will kill me.”

Genesis 5:29

and said, “From the very ground on which the Lord put a curse, this child will bring us relief from all our hard work”; so he named him Noah.

Job 16:18

O Earth, don't hide the wrongs done to me! Don't let my call for justice be silenced!

Isaiah 26:21

The Lord is coming from his heavenly dwelling place to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The murders that were secretly committed on the earth will be revealed, and the ground will no longer hide those who have been killed.

Galatians 3:10

Those who depend on obeying the Law live under a curse. For the scripture says, “Whoever does not always obey everything that is written in the book of the Law is under God's curse!”

Revelation 12:16

But the earth helped the woman; it opened its mouth and swallowed the water that had come from the dragon's mouth.