Genesis 4:9-11

New Century Version

⁹ Later, the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”

Cain answered, “I don’t know. Is it my job to take care of my brother?”

¹⁰ Then the Lord said, “What have you done? Your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground. ¹¹ And now you will be cursed in your work with the ground, the same ground where your brother’s blood fell and where your hands killed him.