| Genesis 4:24 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | If Cain is avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold." (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | If Cain is avenged 7 times, then Lamech, 77 times."(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. |
| ASV: | If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. |
| BBE: | If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's. |
| DBY: | If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold; Lemech seventy and seven fold. |
| ERV: | If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. |
| JPS: | If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. |
| WBS: | If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold, truly Lamech seventy and seven-fold. |
| WEB: | If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times." |
| YLT: | For sevenfold is required for Cain, And for Lamech seventy and sevenfold.' |
| Genesis 4:24 Cross References |
| XREF: | Genesis 4:15 So the LORD said to him, "Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." And the LORD appointed a sign for Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech {s} seventy and sevenfold.
(s) He mocked at God's tolerance in Cain jesting as though God would allow no one to punish him and yet give him permission to murder others. |
| MHC: | 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 one to teach about brass and iron, but none to teach the good knowledge of the Lord: here are devices how to be rich, and how to be mighty, and how to be merry; but nothing of God, of his fear and service. Present things fill the heads of most. Lamech had enemies, whom he had provoked. He draws a comparison betwixt himself and his ancestor Cain; and flatters himself that he is much less criminal. He seems to abuse the patience of God in sparing Cain, into an encouragement to expect that he may sin unpunished. |
| CONC: | Avenged Cain Cain's Death Fold Lamech Lamech's Lemech Punishment Required Seven Sevenfold Seven-fold Seventy Seventy-seven Seventy-sevenfold Truly |
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