Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 4:10

10. And he said, what hast thou done ? The voice of thy brothers Blood crieth unto me from the ground .

I hear thy words, but what say thy actions? What an hideous crime hast thou committed? In vain dost thou endeavour to hide it or deny it.

In the Hebrew it is Bloods, either to aggravate the crime: Or, to shew the plenty of the blood spilt: Or, to charge him with the Murder of all those that might naturally have come out of Abels loyns, which was a far greater crime in the nonage of the World, when the World greatly wanted people.

Upon which it was spilt by thy bloody hands.

Marginal references: Heb. bloods.; Rev. 6. 10.