Genesis 4:10

New American Bible - revised edition

God then said: What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!

Cross References

Hebrews 12:24

and Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and the sprinkled blood that speaks more eloquently than that of Abel.

Hebrews 11:4

By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice greater than Cain’s. Through this he was attested to be righteous, God bearing witness to his gifts, and through this, though dead, he still speaks.

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, the people of Judah, his cherished plant; He waited for judgment, but see, bloodshed! for justice, but hark, the outcry!

Psalm 72:14

From extortion and violence he redeems them, for precious is their blood in his sight.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying aloud, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Psalm 9:12

Sing hymns to the Lord enthroned on Zion; proclaim his deeds among the nations!

Numbers 35:33

You will not pollute the land where you live. For bloodshed pollutes the land, and the land can have no expiation for the blood shed on it except through the blood of the one who shed it.

Job 16:18

O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let my outcry come to rest!

Genesis 9:5

Indeed for your own lifeblood I will demand an accounting: from every animal I will demand it, and from a human being, each one for the blood of another, I will demand an accounting for human life.

Psalm 50:21

When you do these things should I be silent? Do you think that I am like you? I accuse you, I lay out the matter before your eyes.

Exodus 3:7

But the Lord said: I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry against their taskmasters, so I know well what they are suffering.

Job 24:12

In the city the dying groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out. Yet God does not treat it as a disgrace!

2 Kings 9:26

As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—oracle of the Lord—I will repay you for it in that very plot of ground—oracle of the Lord. So now take him and throw him into this plot of ground, in keeping with the word of the Lord.” Death of Ahaziah of Judah.

Joshua 7:19

Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and praise him by telling me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”

Genesis 18:20

So the Lord said: The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great, and their sin so grave,

Genesis 3:13

The Lord God then asked the woman: What is this you have done? The woman answered, “The snake tricked me, so I ate it.”

Acts 5:9

Then Peter said to her, “Why did you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen, the footsteps of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

Acts 5:3

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart so that you lied to the holy Spirit and retained part of the price of the land?

Deuteronomy 21:1

If the corpse of someone who has been slain is found lying in the open, in the land the Lord, your God, is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed the person,

1 Samuel 13:11

Samuel asked him, “What have you done?” Saul explained: “When I saw that the army was deserting me and you did not come on the appointed day, and that the Philistines were assembling at Michmash,

2 Chronicles 28:9

In Samaria there was a prophet of the Lord by the name of Oded. He went out to meet the army returning to Samaria and said to them: “It was because the Lord, the God of your ancestors, was angry with Judah that he delivered them into your power. You, however, have killed them with a fury that has reached up to heaven.

Psalm 9:13

For the avenger of bloodshed remembers, does not forget the cry of the afflicted.