Genesis 4:12

12 When you farm the ground, it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a fugitive, a wanderer on the earth."

Genesis 4:12 In-Context

10 The LORD asked, "What have you done? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.
11 So now you are cursed from the ground, which has received the blood of your brother whom you killed.
12 When you farm the ground, it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a fugitive, a wanderer on the earth."
13 But Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is more than I can stand!
14 You have forced me off this land today. I have to hide from you and become a fugitive, a wanderer on the earth. Now anyone who finds me will kill me!"
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