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24 If Cain is avenged sevenfold,
    truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold.’

25 Adam 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.’ 26 To Seth also a son was born, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to invoke the name of the Lord.

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Footnotes

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

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