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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)
Noah's father, from Seth's line. He named his son Noah in the hope that the boy would bring relief from farming the cursed ground. Luke's genealogy keeps him as one link in the chain.
Noah's father, from Seth's line. He named his son Noah in the hope that the boy would bring relief from farming the cursed ground. Luke's genealogy keeps him as one link in the chain.
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.
Two men named Lamech appear in Genesis. One was a descendant of Cain notorious for boasting to his two wives that he had killed a young man for merely wounding him, escalating the violence Cain's own murder had introduced. The other Lamech was Noah's father, from the righteous line through Seth, and he named his son Noah expressing hope that he would bring relief from the painful labor of farming cursed ground.
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- Genesis 5:25
- Genesis 5:26
- Genesis 5:28
- Genesis 5:30
- Genesis 5:31
- 1 Chronicles 1:3
- Luke 3:36
