CURSE

Passages on this topic · 51

• Genesis 3:14

  Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

• Genesis 3:15

  I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

• Genesis 3:16

  To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

• Genesis 3:17

  To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

• Genesis 3:18

  It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

• Genesis 3:19

  By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

• Genesis 4:11

  Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

• Genesis 4:12

  From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”

• Genesis 4:13

  Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

• Genesis 4:14

  Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

• Genesis 4:15

  Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.

• Genesis 4:16

  Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

• Genesis 9:24

  Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

• Genesis 9:25

  He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

• Genesis 9:26

  He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.

• Genesis 9:27

  May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.”

• Numbers 22:6

  Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”

• Numbers 23:11

  Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”

• Deuteronomy 27:1

  Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep all the commandment which I command you today.

• Deuteronomy 27:2

  It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and coat them with plaster.

• Deuteronomy 27:3

  You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

• Deuteronomy 27:4

  It shall be, when you have crossed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall coat them with plaster.

• Deuteronomy 27:5

  There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones. You shall not use any iron tool on them.

• Deuteronomy 27:6

  You shall build Yahweh your God’s altar of uncut stones. You shall offer burnt offerings on it to Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 27:7

  You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 27:8

  You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.”

• Deuteronomy 27:9

  Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, “Be silence, and listen, Israel! Today you have become the people of Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 27:10

  You shall therefore obey Yahweh your God’s voice, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.”

• Deuteronomy 27:11

  Moses commanded the people the same day, saying,

• Deuteronomy 27:12

  “These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

• Deuteronomy 27:13

  These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

• Deuteronomy 27:14

  With a loud voice, the Levites shall say to all the men of Israel,

• Deuteronomy 27:15

  ‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 27:16

  ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 27:17

  ‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 27:18

  ‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 27:19

  ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 27:20

  ‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 27:21

  ‘Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 27:22

  ‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 27:23

  ‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 27:24

  ‘Cursed is he who secretly kills his neighbor.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 27:25

  ‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 27:26

  ‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’”

• Joshua 8:30

  Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,

• Joshua 8:31

  as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh and sacrificed peace offerings.

• Joshua 8:32

  He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

• Joshua 8:33

  All Israel, their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

• Joshua 8:34

  Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

• Judges 5:23

  ‘Curse Meroz,’ said Yahweh’s angel. ‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn’t come to help Yahweh, to help Yahweh against the mighty.’

• 2 Kings 5:27

  Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever.” He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.