Genesis 4:12
“When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.”
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Behold, thou hast driven me out 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 shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
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Related Verses
“And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;”
“And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.”
“And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.”
“And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.”
“Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.”