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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 because he wounded me.
    I have killed a young man because he hurt me.
24 Anyone who would have killed Cain would have been paid back seven times.
    But anyone who hurts me will be paid back 77 times.”

25 Adam slept with his wife again. She gave birth to a son and named him Seth. She said, “God has given me another child. He will take the place of Abel, because Cain killed him.”

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