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


In Context

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.

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

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

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.

Genesis 4:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:11And now [art] thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:11Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:11Now, therefore, cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath opened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother at thy hand,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:11And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:11And now be thou cursed from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:11And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:11And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:11and now, cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:11And now are you cursed from the earth, which has opened her mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand;