Genesis 4:11-12

Cain and Abel

11 And now d you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 12 When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth."

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 27:24
    "'Cursed be anyone who strikes down his neighbor in secret.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
    Numbers 35:33
    You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
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