Genesis 4:24 “If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.””

Genesis 4:24

If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

World English Bible

If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times.”

American Standard Version

If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

Geneva Bible 1599

If Kain shalbe auenged seuen folde, truely Lamech, seuentie times seuen folde.

Darby Translation

If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold; Lemech seventy and seven fold.

Young's Literal Translation

For sevenfold is required for Cain, And for Lamech seventy and sevenfold.'

Bible in Basic English

If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's.

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In context

23Then Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.

25And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

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