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23 Lamech said to his wives:

Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;
wives of Lamech, pay attention to my words.
For I killed a man for wounding me,
a young man for striking me.
24 If Cain is to be avenged seven times over,
then for Lamech it will be seventy-seven times!

25 Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for she said, ‘God has given[a] me another offspring[b] in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.’

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Footnotes

  1. 4:25 The Hb word for given sounds like the name ‘Seth.’
  2. 4:25 Lit seed