Genesis 4:10

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

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  • Heb 12:24 : 24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
  • Ps 72:14 : 14 He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.
  • Job 31:38-39 : 38 If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together; 39 if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
  • Num 35:33 : 33 "'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.
  • Rev 6:9-9 : 9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. 10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"
  • Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
  • Heb 11:4 : 4 By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
  • Ps 9:12 : 12 For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted.
  • Job 16:18 : 18 "Earth, don't cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
  • Job 24:12 : 12 From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn't regard the folly.
  • Josh 7:19 : 19 Joshua said to Achan, "My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don't hide it from me!"
  • 2 Kgs 9:26 : 26 'Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,' says Yahweh; 'and I will repay you in this plot of ground,' says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to the word of Yahweh."
  • Gen 3:13 : 13 Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
  • Gen 9:5 : 5 I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
  • Gen 18:20 : 20 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
  • Ps 50:21 : 21 You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
  • Acts 5:3 : 3 But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
  • Acts 5:9 : 9 But Peter asked her, "How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out."

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    11 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

    12 From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."

    13 Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.

    14 Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."

    15 Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.

    16 Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

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    2 Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

    3 As time passed, it happened that Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.

    4 Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,

    5 but he didn't respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

    6 Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

    7 If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."

    8 Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." It happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

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    12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

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    5 I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

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    9 Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"

    10 The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."

    11 God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"

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    21 They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."

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    35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

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    10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

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