Genesis 4:24

If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech will be avenged seventy-seven times.”

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

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23Lamech said to his wives, 1 “Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say. 1 For I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me. 1

25Adam slept with his wife again, and she bore another son. She called his name Seth and said, “God has given me another son in the place of Abel, for Cain killed him.”

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Cross References

Matthew 18:22Jesus said to him, “I do not tell you seven times, but until 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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