9. And the Lord said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?
10. And [the Lord] said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.
11. And now you are cursed by reason of the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's [shed] blood from your hand.
12. When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth [in perpetual exile, a degraded outcast].