Parallel Verses
Webster
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy 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.
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.
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.
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 crieth to me from the ground. 11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; 12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield to thee its strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 3:14
And the LORD God said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
Deuteronomy 28:15-20
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
Galatians 3:10
For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse: for it is written, Accursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Genesis 4:14
Behold, thou hast driven me this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it will come to pass, that every one that findeth me will slay me.
Deuteronomy 27:16-26
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 29:19-21
And it should come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he should bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
Job 16:18
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
Job 31:38-40
If my land crieth against me, or its furrows likewise complain;
Isaiah 26:21
For behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Revelation 12:16
And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.