Genesis Chapter 4 verse 10 Holy Bible

ASV Genesis 4:10

And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
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BBE Genesis 4:10

And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.
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DARBY Genesis 4:10

And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.
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KJV Genesis 4:10

And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
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WBT Genesis 4:10

And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the ground.
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WEB Genesis 4:10

Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
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YLT Genesis 4:10

And He saith, `What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying unto Me from the ground;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - Satisfied that the guilty fratricide is resolved to make no acknowledgment of his deed, the omniscient Judge proceeds to charge him with his sin. And he - i.e. Jehovah - said, What hast thou done? Thus intimating his perfect cognizance of the fact which his prisoner was attempting to deny. What a revelation it must have been to the inwardly trembling culprit of the impossibility of eluding the besetting God! (Psalm 139:5). The voice of thy brother's blood (literally, bloods, i.e. of this and all subsequent martyrs - Chald. Par.) crieth unto me. A common Scriptural expression concerning murder and other crimes (Genesis 18:20, 21; Genesis 19:13; Exodus 3:9; Hebrews 12:24; James 5:4). The blood crying is a symbol of the soul crying for its right to live (Lange). In this instance the cry was a demand for the punishment of the murderer; and that cry has reverberated through all lands and down through all ages, proclaiming vengeance against the shedder of innocent blood (cf. Genesis 9:5). "Hence the prayer that the earth may net drink in the blood shed upon it, in order that it may not thereby become invisible and inaudible" (Knobel). Cf. Job 16:18; Isaiah 26:21; Ezekiel 24:7; also Eschylus, 'Chaephorae,' 310, 398 (quoted by T. Lewis in Lange). From the ground. Into which it had disappeared, but not, as the murderer hoped, to become for. gotten.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) Thy brother's blood crieth unto me.--The sight he has seen of death cleaves to him, and grows into a terror; and from above the voice of Jehovah tells him that the blood he has shed calls aloud for vengeance. Thus with the first shedding of human blood that ominous thought sprang up, divinely bestowed, that the earth will grant no peace to the wretch who has stained her fair face with the life stream of man. But "the blood of Jesus speaketh better things than that of Abel" (Hebrews 12:24). The voice of one cried for justice and retribution: the other for reconciliation and peace.