Genesis 4:23

Coverdale Bible (1535)

And Lamech sayde vnto his wyues Ada and Zilla: Heare my voyce (ye wyues of Lamech) and herken vnto my wordes: for I haue slayne a man, and wounded my selfe: and (haue kylled) a yonge man, and gotte my self strypes.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 20:13 : 13 Thou shalt not kyll.
  • Lev 19:18 : 18 Thou shalt not auenge thy self, ner beare euell will agaynst the childre of thy people. Thou shalt loue thy neghboure, as thy self: for I am the LORDE.
  • Num 23:18 : 18 And he toke vp his parable, & sayde: Ryse vp Balac & heare, marke my testimony wt thine eares thou sonne of Ziphor.
  • Judg 9:7 : 7 Whan this was tolde Iotham, he wente, and stode vpon the toppe of mount Grisim, and lifte vp his voyce, cried, and sayde: Heare me ye men of Sichem, that God maye heare you also

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    24Cain shalbe aueged seue tymes: but Lamech seuen and seuentie tymes.

    25Adam laye yet with his wyfe agayne, & she bare a sonne, and called him Seth. For God (sayde she) hath apoynted me another sede, for Abell, whom Cain slew.

  • Gen 4:13-20
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    13And Cain sayde vnto ye LORDE: my synne is greater, then that it maye be forgeuen me.

    14Beholde, thou castest me out this daye from out of ye londe, and from yi sight must I hyde myself, and must be a vagabunde and a rennagate vpon ye earth. And thus shal it go with me: that who so fyndeth me, shal slaye me.

    15But the LORDE sayde thus vnto him: Who so euer slayeth Cain, it shalbe auenged seuenfolde. And the LORDE put a marck vpon Cain, that no man which founde him, shulde kyll him.

    16So Cain wente out from ye face of the LORDE, and dwelt in the lande Nod, vpon the east syde of Eden.

    17And Cain laye with his wyfe, which conceaued and bare Henoch. And he buylded a cite, and called it after the name of his sonne Henoch.

    18And Henoch begat Irad, Irad begat Mahuiael. Mahuiael begat Mathusael. Mathusael begat Lamech.

    19And Lamech toke him two wyues: ye one was called Ada, & the other Zilla.

    20And Ada bare Iabel, of whom came they that dwelt in tentes and had catell.

  • Gen 4:22
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    22And Zilla she also bare Tubalcain, a worker in all connynge poyntes of metall & yron. And Tubalcains sister was called Naema.

  • Gen 5:28
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    28Lamech was an hundreth and two and foure score yeare olde, and begat a sonne,

  • Gen 5:30-31
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    30After this he lyued fyue hudreth and fyue & nyentie yeare, and begat sonnes and doughters.

    31And his whole age was seuen hundreth seuen and seuentie yeares, and so he dyed.

  • Gen 4:8
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    8And Cain talked with Abell his brother. And it happened, that whan they were in the felde, Cain arose agaynst Abell his brother, and slew him.

  • 1 Chr 1:3
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    3Henoch, Mathusalah, Lamech,

  • Gen 4:10-11
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    10And he sayde: What hast thou done? The voyce of thy brothers bloude crieth vnto me out of the earth.

    11And now shalt thou be cursed vpon the earth, which hath opened hir mouth, and receaued thy brothers bloude of thine hande.

  • Gen 5:25-26
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    25Mathusalah was an uhdreth & seue and foure score yeare olde, & begat Lamech:

    26and lyued therafter seuen hundreth and two and foure score yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters.

  • Exod 22:24
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    24then shal my wrath waxe whote, so yt I shal sley you with the swerde, and youre wyues shalbe wedowes, and youre children fatherlesse,

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    1Morouer Adam laye with Heua his wyfe, which coceaued & bare Cain, and sayde, I haue opteyned ye man of the LORDE.

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    23Then sayde man: This is once bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shalbe called woman, because she was take of man.

  • 2 Sam 14:7
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    7And beholde, all the whole kynred ryseth vp agaynst thy handmayden, and saye: Delyuer him which hath smytten his brother, that we maye kyll him, for the soule of his brother whom he hath slayne, and that we maye destroye the heyre also. And thus are they mynded to put out my sparke, which yet is lefte, that there shulde no name ner eny thinge els remayne ouer vnto my husbade vpon earth.

  • Exod 21:23
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    23But yf there come harme vnto her there thorow, then shal he paye soule for soule,

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    37And he founde another man, and sayde: I praye the smyte me. And the man smote him, and wounded him,

  • Gen 5:4
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    4& lyued therafter eight hudreth yeare, and begat sonnes and doughters.

  • 2 Sam 1:9
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    9And he saide vnto me: Come to me, and kyll me, for anguysh hath gotten holde of me: for my life is yet whole within me.