Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And now cursed be thou as pertaining to the earth, which opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood of thine hand.
New American Standard Bible
Now
King James Version
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
Holman Bible
So now you are cursed, alienated, from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.
International Standard Version
Now you're more cursed than the ground, which has opened to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
A Conservative Version
And now cursed are thou from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.
American Standard Version
And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
Amplified
And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s [shed] blood from your hand.
Bible in Basic English
And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;
Darby Translation
And now be thou cursed from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.
Julia Smith Translation
And now cursed art thou, from the earth, which opened her mouth to take thy brother's bloods from thy hand.
King James 2000
And now are you cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand;
Lexham Expanded Bible
So now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand.
Modern King James verseion
And now you are cursed more than the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
NET Bible
So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
New Heart English Bible
Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
The Emphasized Bible
Now therefore, accursed, art thou, - from the ground which hath opened her mouth, to receive the shed-blood of thy brother at thy hand.
Webster
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
World English Bible
Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Youngs Literal Translation
and now, cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand;
Themes
Abel » Son of adam. History of
Cain » Son of adam » Jealousy and crime of
Curse » Denounced » Against cain
Escape » None, from the judgments of God
Homicide » Instances of the punishment of murderers » Cain
Judgments » Upon individuals--exemplified » Cain
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 4:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Cain And Abel
10 And he said, "What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cryeth unto me out of the earth. 11 And now cursed be thou as pertaining to the earth, which opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood of thine hand. 12 For when thou tillest the ground she shall henceforth not give her power unto thee. A vagabond and a renegade shalt thou be upon the earth."
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 3:14
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, "Because thou hast so done, most cursed be thou of all cattle and of all beasts of the field. Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all days of thy life.
Deuteronomy 28:15-20
"But and if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God to keep and to do all his commandments and ordinances which I command thee this day; then all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee:
Galatians 3:10
For as many as are under the deeds of the law, are under malediction. For it is written, "Cursed is every man that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to fulfil them."
Genesis 4:14
Behold, thou castest me out this day from off the face of the earth, and from thy sight must I hide myself, and I must be a vagabond and a renegade upon the earth: Moreover whosoever findeth me, will kill me."
Deuteronomy 27:16-26
"'Cursed be he that curseth his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Deuteronomy 29:19-21
so that when he heareth the words of this curse, he bless himself in his heart saying, 'I shall have peace; I will therefore work after the lust of mine own heart, that the drunken may perish with the thirsty.'
Job 16:18
O earth, cover not my blood, and let my crying find no room.
Job 31:38-40
But if cause be that my land cry against me, or that the furrows thereof make any complaint;
Isaiah 26:21
For behold, the LORD will go out of his habitation, and visit the wickedness of them that dwell upon earth. The earth also shall disclose her own blood, and shall no more hide those that are slain in her.
Revelation 12:16
And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.