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23 Lamech said to his wives,

“Adah and Zillah, listen to me!
Wives of Lamech, hear what I say!
I killed a man for bruising me,
a young man for wounding me.
24 If Cain is avenged 7 times,
then Lamech, 77 times.”

Adam’s Godly Descendants—Adam to Enosh

25 Adam made love to his wife again. She gave birth to a son and named him Seth, because ⌞she said,⌟ “God has given [a] me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

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Footnotes

  1. 4:25 There is a play on words here between Hebrew sheth (Seth   ) and shath (given   ).

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