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Genesis 4:11

WEB

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

KJV

11And now art thou cursed[+] from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;

BSB

11Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

FBV

11Consequently you are more cursed than the ground because you soaked it with your brother's blood.

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Extra References

Galatians 3:10

10For 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.”


Job 16:18

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


Genesis 3:14

14The LORD God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.


Deuteronomy 28:15-20

15But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you. 16You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field. 17Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed. 18The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed. 19You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out. 20The LORD 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.


Job 31:38-40

38If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together; 39if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life, 40let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.


Deuteronomy 27:16-26

16‘Cursed is he who dishonors 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 leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

19‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

20‘Cursed is he who lies with[+] his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’ 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, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter.’ 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 secretly kills his neighbor.’ 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 uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’”


Deuteronomy 29:19-21

19and 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. 20The LORD will not pardon him, but then the LORD’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under the sky. 21The LORD will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.


Genesis 4:14

14Behold, you have driven me out today 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. Whoever finds me will kill me.”


Revelation 12:16

16The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.


Isaiah 26:21

21For, behold, the LORD comes 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.