Genesis 4:11

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'Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.'

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  • Gal 3:10 : 10 For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.'
  • Gen 3:14 : 14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, 'Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals. You will crawl on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.'
  • Deut 28:15-20 : 15 But if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD your God and carefully follow all His commandments and statutes I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you. 16 Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the field. 17 Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18 Cursed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your land, the offspring of your cattle, and the increase of your flocks. 19 Cursed will you be when you come in, and cursed will you be when you go out. 20 The LORD will send curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil of your deeds, by which you have forsaken Me.
  • Deut 29:19-21 : 19 The LORD will not be willing to forgive such a person. His anger and jealousy will burn against them, and every curse written in this scroll will fall on them. The LORD will blot out their name from under the heavens. 20 The LORD will single them out for disaster from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law. 21 Future generations—your children who come after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant country—will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it.
  • Job 16:18 : 18 O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never find a resting place.
  • Job 31:38-40 : 38 If my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together, 39 if I have eaten its produce without payment and caused the death of its owners, 40 then let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
  • Isa 26:21 : 21 See, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed on it; it will conceal its slain no longer.
  • Gen 4:14 : 14 'Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.'
  • Deut 27:16-26 : 16 Cursed is anyone who dishonors his father or mother. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.' 17 Cursed is anyone who moves his neighbor's boundary marker. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.' 18 Cursed is anyone who leads a blind person astray on the road. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.' 19 Cursed is anyone who denies justice to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.' 20 Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father's wife, for he has dishonored his father's bed. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.' 21 Cursed is anyone who has sexual relations with any animal. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.' 22 Cursed is anyone who has sexual relations with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.' 23 Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his mother-in-law. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.' 24 Cursed is anyone who kills his neighbor secretly. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.' 25 Cursed is anyone who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.' 26 Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Rev 12:16 : 16 But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.

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  • Gen 4:5-10
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    5But He did not look with favor on Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his face was downcast.

    6Then the LORD said to Cain, 'Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?'

    7'If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.'

    8Cain said to his brother Abel, 'Let’s go out to the field.' While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

    9Then the LORD said to Cain, 'Where is your brother Abel?' He replied, 'I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?'

    10The LORD said, 'What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground.'

  • Gen 4:12-16
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    12'When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.'

    13Cain said to the LORD, 'My punishment is more than I can bear.'

    14'Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.'

    15But the LORD said to him, 'Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.' Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.

    16So Cain went out from the LORD’s presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

  • Gen 9:4-6
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    4But you must not eat meat that still has its lifeblood in it.

    5I will require an accounting for your lifeblood. I will demand it from any animal and from every person. From each person, I will demand an accounting for the life of another person.

    6Whoever sheds human blood, by humans will their blood be shed; for in the image of God, God made mankind.

  • 1 John 3:12
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    12Not like Cain, who was from the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil and his brother’s were righteous.

  • Gen 4:2-3
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    2Later, she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel tended flocks, while Cain worked the soil.

    3Over time, Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD.

  • Gen 3:17-19
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    17To Adam He said, 'Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, "You must not eat from it," cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.'

    18It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

    19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread until you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return.

  • Gen 9:25
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    25he said, 'Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.'

  • Gen 27:40
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    40You will live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck.

  • Deut 28:18
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    18Cursed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your land, the offspring of your cattle, and the increase of your flocks.

  • Gen 3:23
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    23So the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

  • Deut 28:16
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    16Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the field.

  • Job 1:11
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    11'But stretch out your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.'

  • Ezek 35:6
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    6therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will make you a land of bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.

  • Gen 3:14
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    14So the LORD God said to the serpent, 'Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals. You will crawl on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.'

  • Job 16:18
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    18O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never find a resting place.

  • Gen 3:11
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    11He said, 'Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?'