Genesis 4:24

World English Bible (2000)

If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times."

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  • Gen 4:15 : 15 Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.
  • Matt 18:22 : 22 Jesus said to him, "I don't tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.

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  • 23 Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.

  • Gen 4:13-20
    8 verses
    80%

    13 Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.

    14 Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."

    15 Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.

    16 Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

    17 Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

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

    19 Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

    20 Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.

  • Gen 5:30-31
    2 verses
    75%

    30 Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

    31 All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.

  • 28 Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of a son,

  • 25 Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, "for God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."

  • Gen 4:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    6 Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

    7 If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."

    8 Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." It happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

  • Gen 5:25-26
    2 verses
    69%

    25 Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.

    26 Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

  • 3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

  • 31 but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.

  • Gen 4:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10 Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

    11 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

  • 2 Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

  • 4 The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

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

  • 6 He shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!"