◄ Genesis 4:24 ►
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Good News Translation
If seven lives are taken to pay for killing Cain, Seventy-seven will be taken if anyone kills me."

New Revised Standard Version
If Cain is avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”

Contemporary English Version
Anyone who tries to get even with me will be punished ten times more than anyone who tries to get even with Cain."

New American Bible
If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sevenfold vengeance shall be taken for Cain: but for Lamech seventy times sevenfold.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Sevenfold vengeance shall be taken for Cain: but for Lamech seventy times sevenfold.

if.

Genesis 4:15 And the Lord said to him: No, it shall not so be: but whosoever shall kill Cain, shall be punished sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him.

seventy.

Matthew 18:22 Jesus saith to him: I say not to thee, till seven times; but till seventy times seven times.

Context
The Descendants of Cain
…23And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella: Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to the wounding of myself, and a stripling to my own bruising. 24Sevenfold vengeance shall be taken for Cain: but for Lamech seventy times sevenfold.
Cross References
Matthew 18:22
Jesus saith to him: I say not to thee, till seven times; but till seventy times seven times.

Genesis 4:15
And the Lord said to him: No, it shall not so be: but whosoever shall kill Cain, shall be punished sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him.

Genesis 4:23
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