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24If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

Genesis 4:24

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 23-24)

By this speech of Lamech, which is here recorded, and probably was much talked of in those times, he further appears to have been a wicked man, as Cain’s accursed race generally were. Observe, 1. How haughtily and imperiously he speaks to his wives, as one that expected a mighty regard and observance: Hear my voice, you wives of Lamech . No marvel that he who had broken one law of marriage, by tak...

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