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23 Lamech said to his wives:

“Adah and Zillah, hear my voice!
    You wives of Lamech, listen to what I say.
I killed a man for wounding me.
    I killed a young man for hitting me.
24 Cain’s killer may be punished 7 times.
    Then Lamech’s killer will be punished 77 times.”

Adam and Eve Have a New Son

25 Adam had intimate relations with his wife Eve again. And she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth.[a] Eve said, “God has given me another child. He will take the place of Abel, who was killed by Cain.”

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Footnotes

  1. 4:25 Seth This name sounds like the Hebrew word for “to give.”

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