Genesis 4:11 meaning and explanation

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

Genesis 4:11, Berean Standard Bible

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God speaks these words to Cain after Abel's murder, pronouncing judgment. The ground that Cain worked as a tiller of the soil had received Abel's blood, and now it turns against him.

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