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Genesis 4:11

What does Genesis 4:11 mean?

A plain-English look at Genesis 4:11 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and now, cursed <FI>art<Fi> thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand;

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

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

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

v.10And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.

v.11This passage

v.12when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 3:14

    And Jehovah God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou 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

    But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah 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.

  • 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.

  • Deuteronomy 29:19

    and it come to pass, when he heareth 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.

  • Galatians 3:10

    For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.

  • Job 31:38

    If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;

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