“From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Genesis 4 contains 26 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.