Genesis 4:24

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

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  • Gen 4:15 : 15 But the LORD said to him, 'Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.' Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
  • Matt 18:22 : 22 Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.

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  • Gen 4:23
    84%

    23Lamech said to his wives, 'Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.'

  • Gen 4:13-20
    8 verses
    80%

    13Cain said to the LORD, 'My punishment is more than I can bear.'

    14'Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.'

    15But the LORD said to him, 'Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.' Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.

    16So Cain went out from the LORD’s presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

    17Cain was intimate with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named the city after his son Enoch.

    18Enoch had a son named Irad. Irad was the father of Mehujael, who was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.

    19Lamech married two wives, one named Adah and the other Zillah.

    20Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock.

  • Gen 5:30-31
    2 verses
    75%

    30After he became the father of Noah, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.

    31So all the days of Lamech's life were 777 years, and then he died.

  • Gen 5:28
    73%

    28When Lamech had lived 182 years, he fathered a son.

  • Gen 4:25
    72%

    25Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, 'God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.'

  • Gen 4:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    6Then the LORD said to Cain, 'Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?'

    7'If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.'

    8Cain said to his brother Abel, 'Let’s go out to the field.' While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

  • Gen 5:25-26
    2 verses
    69%

    25When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he fathered Lamech.

    26After he fathered Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

  • 1 Chr 1:3
    69%

    3Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech.

  • Prov 6:31
    69%

    31Yet if he is caught, he must pay back sevenfold; he may have to give up all the wealth of his house.

  • Gen 4:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10The LORD said, 'What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground.'

    11'Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.'

  • Gen 4:2
    67%

    2Later, she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel tended flocks, while Cain worked the soil.

  • Gen 5:4
    67%

    4After he fathered Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

  • Luke 3:36
    67%

    36the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

  • 2 Sam 12:6
    67%

    6He must pay back four times the price of the lamb because he did such a thing and had no pity!