Genesis 4:24

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

If Cain is to be avenged seven times as much, then Lamech seventy-seven times!”

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Referenced Verses

  • 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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  • 23Lamech 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 4:13-20
    8 verses
    80%

    13Then Cain said to the LORD,“My punishment is too great to endure!

    14Look! 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.”

    15But 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.

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

    17The 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.

    18To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael. Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.

    19Lamech took two wives for himself; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.

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

  • Gen 5:30-31
    2 verses
    75%

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

    31The entire lifetime of Lamech was 777 years, and then he died.

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

  • 25And 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 4:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    6Then the LORD said to Cain,“Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?

    7Is 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.”

    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 became the father of Lamech.

    26Methuselah lived 782 years after he became the father of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters.

  • 3Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

  • 31Yet if he is caught he must repay seven times over, he might even have to give all the wealth of his house.

  • Gen 4:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10But the LORD said,“What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

    11So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

  • 2Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.

  • 4The length of time Adam lived after he became the father of Seth was 800 years; during this time he had other sons and daughters.

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

  • 6Because he committed this cold-hearted crime, he must pay for the lamb four times over!”