Genesis 4:23

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 20:13 : 13 "You shall not murder.
  • Lev 19:18 : 18 You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
  • Num 23:18 : 18 He took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, you son of Zippor:
  • Judg 9:7 : 7 When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said to them, Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

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  • Gen 4:24-25
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    24If Cain will be avenged seven times, Truly Lamech seventy-seven times."

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

  • Gen 4:13-20
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    13Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.

    14Behold, 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."

    15Yahweh 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.

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

    17Cain 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.

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

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

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

  • 22Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron. Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah.

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

  • Gen 5:30-31
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    30Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

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

  • 8Cain 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.

  • 3Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

  • Gen 4:10-11
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    10Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

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

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

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

  • 24and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

  • 1The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with Yahweh's help."

  • 23The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."

  • 7Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.

  • 23But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,

  • 37Then he found another man, and said, Please strike me. The man struck him, smiting and wounding him.

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

  • 9He said to me, Stand, I pray you, beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.