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23         Lamech said to his wives,
“Adah and Zillah: Hear my voice!
    Lamech’s wives: Listen to my speech!
For I have killed a man for wounding me,
    and a boy for bruising me.
24         If Cain is to be avenged seven times,
    then Lamech—77 times!”

25 Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and she named him Seth, “For God has appointed me another seed in place of Abel—since Cain killed him.”

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