Genesis 4:24
If Cain is to be avenged seven times as much, then Lamech seventy-seven times!”
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- Gen 4:15 : 15 But the LORD said to him,“All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much.” Then the LORD put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.
- Matt 18:22 : 22 Jesus said to him,“Not seven times, I tell you, but seventy-seven times!
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23 Lamech said to his wives,“Adah and Zillah! Listen to me! You wives of Lamech, hear my words! I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for hurting me.
- Gen 4:13-208 verses80%
13 Then Cain said to the LORD,“My punishment is too great to endure!
14 Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”
15 But the LORD said to him,“All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much.” Then the LORD put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.
16 So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
17 The Beginning of Civilization Cain was intimate with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was building a city, and he named the city after his son Enoch.
18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael. Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.
19 Lamech took two wives for himself; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.
20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the first of those who live in tents and keep livestock.
- Gen 5:30-312 verses75%
30 Lamech lived 595 years after he became the father of Noah, and he had other sons and daughters.
31 The entire lifetime of Lamech was 777 years, and then he died.
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28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son.
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25 And Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth, saying,“God has given me another child in place of Abel because Cain killed him.”
- Gen 4:6-83 verses71%
6 Then the LORD said to Cain,“Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?
7 Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it.”
8 Cain 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 5:25-262 verses69%
25 When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech.
26 Methuselah lived 782 years after he became the father of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters.
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3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
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31 Yet if he is caught he must repay seven times over, he might even have to give all the wealth of his house.
- Gen 4:10-112 verses69%
10 But the LORD said,“What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!
11 So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
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2 Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.
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4 The length of time Adam lived after he became the father of Seth was 800 years; during this time he had other sons and daughters.
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36 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
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6 Because he committed this cold-hearted crime, he must pay for the lamb four times over!”