Genesis 4:11

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

Cross References

Genesis 3:14

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

Genesis 4:14

Today you have driven me away from the soil, and I shall be hidden from your face; I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and anyone who meets me may kill me.”

Genesis 5:29

he named him Noah, saying, “Out of the ground that 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, do not cover my blood; let my outcry find no resting place.

Isaiah 26:21

For the Lord comes out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no longer cover its slain.

Galatians 3:10

For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the things written in the book of the law.”

Revelation 12:16

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