¹¹ So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.^[a]

³³ “Do not defile the land where you live, for bloodshed defiles the land,^(A) and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

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³⁵ So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you,^[a] from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah,^(A) son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.^(B)