And now [art] thou cursed from the earth
From receiving benefit by it, and enjoying the fruits of it as
before, and from having a settled dwelling in it, as is
afterwards explained: which hath opened her mouth to
receive thy brother's blood from thy
hand;
the blood of his brother, which was shed by his own hand, was
received and sucked into the earth, where it was spilt, through
the pores of it, and drank up and covered, so as not to be seen;
in which it was as it were more humane to Abel, and as it were
more ashamed of the crime, and shuddered more, and expressed more
horror at it, than Cain.
Genesis 4:11
