Genesis 4:24

For sevenfold is required for Cain, And for Lamech seventy and sevenfold.'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

23And Lamech saith to his wives: — 'Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Wives of Lamech, give ear [to] my saying: For a man I have slain for my wound, Even a young man for my hurt;

25And Adam again knoweth his wife, and she beareth a son, and calleth his name Seth, 'for God hath appointed for me another seed instead of Abel:' for Cain had slain him.

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Cross References

Matthew 18:22Jesus saith to him, 'I do not say to thee till seven times, but till 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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