 | Charles Spear - 1844 - 268 sidor
...legislation in all ages ! We have seen the deed; we have learned the motive, and now the sentence! 'And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath...unto thee her strength. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.' Life and liberty are both held sacred. The murderer might wander upon... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 702 sidor
...and how much it cried to heaven lor vengeance, proceeded to pass sentence on him. " Now," says he, "art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened...unto thee her strength ; a fugitive and a vagabond shah thou be in the earth." The wretched criminal, struck with the severity of this denunciation, convinced... | |
 | 1851 - 922 sidor
...more naturally be personified in the feminine ; consequently we find such phrases as the following: "And now art thou cursed from the earth which hath...thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth yield to thee her strength." Gen. 4: 11, 12. "And the earth shall remove out of her place, .... and it shall... | |
 | Albert Cole - 1845 - 312 sidor
...the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain, " What hast thou done ? the voice of thy brother's blood...mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand." " A fugitive and a vagabond shall thou be in the earth." The penalty thus affixed to murder has never... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 196 sidor
...jrother's blood crieth unttrme from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which huth opened her mouth to" receive thy brother's blood from...unto thee her strength ; a fugitive and a vagabond shall thou he in the earth. And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater han I can bear. Behold,... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1846 - 228 sidor
...brother Cain. For this act of violence the Lord said to Cain, " The voice of 'thy brother's blood 6 crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed...unto thee her strength. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth." (Gen. iv. 10—12.) For this atrocious sin we are informed, in the above... | |
 | 1864 - 726 sidor
...words are these ; the words of God. For this deed God pronounces a terrible sentence upon the murderer. "And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath...unto thee her strength ; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth." Little better than instant death is this sentence to Cain. "With the brand... | |
 | William Jowett - 1847 - 138 sidor
...field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother ? And he said, I know not : Am I...unto thee her strength ; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.... | |
 | 1847 - 592 sidor
...and a record of the sentence which God himself pronounced upon him. His sentence reads as follows : ' And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath...unto thee her strength ; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.' This was all the sentence ever pronounced upon Cain for this crime, and... | |
 | Isaac Dowd Williamson - 1847 - 262 sidor
...with reeking hands, was at the bar of God, and the sentence from the justice of the Eternal was, " Now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened...unto thee her strength ; a fugitive and a vagabond shall thou be in the earth. " And there is the end of the curse, even upon the guilty murderer. No... | |
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And he said, What hast thou done ? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand ; When thou tillest the . ground, it shall... 
