Genesis 4:24

If Cain is to be avenged sevenfold, then Lamech will be seventy and sevenfold.’

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If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

In Context

23Lamech said to his wives: ‘Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my speech; because I have slain a man for wounding me, and a young man for bruising me.

25Adam lay with his wife again and she bore a son. She named him Seth: ‘because God gave me another son for Abel, who was killed by Cain.’

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Cross References

Matthew 18:22But Jesus answered, ‘Not seven times, but seventy times seven.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 4:24-25

23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. By this speech of Lamech, which is here recorded, and probably was much talked of in those times, he further appears to have been a wicked man, as Cain's accursed race generally were. Observe, 1. How haughtily and imperiously he speaks to his wives, as one that… Read the whole commentary →

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