Genesis 4:23-25

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²³Lamech said to his wives:

“Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;
    you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say:
I have killed a man for wounding me,
    a young man for striking me.
²⁴If Cain is avenged sevenfold,
    truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”

²⁵Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, for she said, “God has appointed^[a] for me another child instead of Abel, because Cain killed him.”

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Genesis 4:25 The verb in Heb resembles the word for Seth

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