Genesis 4:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Thy brother’s blood crieth unto me. — The sight he has seen of death cleaves to him, and grows into a terror; and from above the voice of Jehovah tells him that the blood he has shed calls aloud for vengeance. Thus with the first shedding of human blood that ominous thought sprang up, divinely bestowed, that the earth will grant no peace to the wretch who has stained her fair face with the life stream of man. But “the blood of Jesus speaketh better things than that of Abel” (Hebrews 12:24). The voice of one cried for justice and retribution: the other for reconciliation and peace.

Genesis 4:10

10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's bloode crieth unto me from the ground.