Genesis 4:11

Translations

Modern

Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Traditional

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

Literal

And now, cursed are you from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive the bloods of your brother from your hand.

Latin

Nunc igitur maledictus eris super terram, quæ aperuit os suum, et suscepit sanguinem fratris tui de manu tua.

Original

Hebrew

English

Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Notes

Genesis 4:11–12

Like his father (see 3:9–12, 17–19), God asked Cain questions before he judged him (4:9–10). Adam's sin had already caused the ground to be cursed. Now Cain was cursed and driven away from the land he had farmed because he had polluted it with innocent blood.
a fugitive and a wanderer: God sentenced Cain to endless wandering in a land that offered neither food nor safety. The consequences of sin were becoming worse.

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Events

God curses Cainc. 3875 BC

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