Genesis 4:11

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gal 3:10 : 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."
  • Gen 3:14 : 14 Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
  • Deut 28:15-20 : 15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you. 16 You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field. 17 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed. 18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed. 19 You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed when you go out. 20 Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.
  • Deut 29:19-21 : 19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, "I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry." 20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky. 21 Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.
  • Job 16:18 : 18 "Earth, don't cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
  • Job 31:38-40 : 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, 40 let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.
  • Isa 26:21 : 21 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
  • Gen 4:14 : 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."
  • Deut 27:16-26 : 16 'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.' 17 'Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.' 18 'Cursed is he who makes the blind to wander out of the way.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.' 19 'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.' 20 'Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.' 21 'Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.' 22 'Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.' 23 'Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.' 24 'Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.' 25 'Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.' 26 'Cursed is he who doesn't confirm the words of this law to do them.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'"
  • Rev 12:16 : 16 The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 4:5-10
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    5but he didn't respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

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

    7If 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."

    8Cain 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.

    9Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"

    10Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

  • Gen 4:12-16
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    84%

    12From 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."

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

    14Behold, 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."

    15Yahweh 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.

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

  • Gen 9:4-6
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    74%

    4But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.

    5I 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.

    6Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

  • 1 John 3:12
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    12unlike 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.

  • Gen 4:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Gen 3:17-19
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    72%

    17To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

    18Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

    19By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

  • Gen 9:25
    72%

    25He said, "Canaan is cursed. He will be servant of servants to his brothers."

  • Gen 27:40
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    40By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."

  • Deut 28:18
    71%

    18The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed.

  • Gen 3:23
    70%

    23Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

  • Deut 28:16
    70%

    16You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field.

  • Job 1:11
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    11But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face."

  • Ezek 35:6
    70%

    6therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

  • Gen 3:14
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    14Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

  • Job 16:18
    69%

    18"Earth, don't cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

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