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11 Now you are cursed and sent away from the soil[a] which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 12 When you work the soil, it will no longer give its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

13 Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is too great for me to bear.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 4:11 Here and in verse 14 the Hebrew word adamah, which can be translated ground or land, refers to the soil that Cain worked.