Year not stated · Creation and Pre-Flood
Lamech boasts of vengeance
Lamech told his wives that he had killed a man for wounding him and claimed vengeance seventy-sevenfold, extending Cain's violence into his own generation (Genesis 4:23-24).
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Before Seth's birth in the narrative; Scripture gives no year
📖 Genesis 4:23–24
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. 24If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”
Sources: Scripture — Genesis 4:23-24
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