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23 Lamech said to his wives:

“Adah and Zillah, hear my voice,
    you wives of Lamech, and listen to my speech.
For I have killed a man for wounding me,
    a young man who hurt me.
24 If Cain will be avenged sevenfold,
    then truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”

25 Adam had relations with his wife again, and she had another son and called his name Seth, for she said, “God has granted me another offspring instead of Abel because Cain killed him.”

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