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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Lamech (Man living at the time before the Flood)
He was Cain's descendant. He boasted to his two wives that he had killed a young man just for wounding him. Cain's violence came down to him and got worse.
First, in plain English
He was Cain's descendant. He boasted to his two wives that he had killed a young man just for wounding him. Cain's violence came down to him and got worse.
In Luke
One line in Luke's chain of ‘son of.’ In the Book of Noah fragment he's a frightened new father who flees his own son's birth and needs Methuselah and Enoch to talk him down.
The word
H3929 · G2984
Where it appears
- Genesis 4:18
- Genesis 4:19
- Genesis 4:23
- Genesis 4:24
