Genesis 4:24
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Genesis 4:24 in other translations
| BSB | If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.” |
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| WEB | If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times.” |
| ASV | If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. |
| YLT | For sevenfold is required for Cain, And for Lamech seventy and sevenfold.' |
| DARBY | If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold; Lemech seventy and seven fold. |
| BBE | If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's. |
| Webster | If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold, truly Lamech seventy and seven-fold. |
What does Genesis 4:24 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 4:23-24
23-24. Lamech said unto his wives--This speech is in a poetical form, probably the fragment of an old poem, transmitted to the time of Moses. It seems to indicate that Lamech had slain a man in self-defense, and its drift is to assure his wives, by the preservation of Cain, that an unintentional homicide, as he was, could be in no danger.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 4:19-24
One of Cain's wicked race is the first recorded, as having broken the law of marriage. Hitherto, one man had but one wife at a time; but Lamech took two. Wordly things, are the only things that carnal, wicked people set their hearts upon, and are most clever and industrious about. So it was with this race of Cain. Here was a father of shepherds, and a father of musicians, but not a father of the faithful. Here is…
Genesis 4:24 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 4:24
- Matthew 18:22
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
- Genesis 4:15
And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
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Context
- Genesis 4:23
And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
- Genesis 4:24
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
- Genesis 4:25
And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
Genesis 4:24 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Si siete veces será vengado Caín, Lamech en verdad setenta veces siete lo será. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | si Caïn est vengé sept fois, Lémec le sera 77 fois. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn Kain siebenfältig gerächt wird, so Lamech siebenundsiebzigfältig. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Septuplum ultio dabitur de Cain: de Lamech vero septuagies septies. |