Gen 4:11
And now {art} thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
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For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed {is} every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD 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:
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou {art} cursed 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:
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.
And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Cursed {be} he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. {blood: Heb. bloods}
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; {complain: Heb. weep}
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 imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: {imagination: or, stubbornness} {drunkenness...: Heb. the drunken to the thirsty}
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
And he called his name Noah, saying, This {same} shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed. {Noah: Gr. Noe: that is Rest, or, Comfort}
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! {blood: Heb. bloods}
But that which beareth thorns and briers {is} rejected, and {is} nigh unto cursing; whose end {is} to be burned.
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing {thereof, to wit}, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that {appertained} unto Korah, and all {their} goods.
Cursed {shalt} thou {be} in the city, and cursed {shalt} thou {be} in the field.
And he said, Cursed {be} Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.