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Genèse 4:24

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Genèse 4:24 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 4:24

If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy
and sevenfold.
] Which if understood of him as confessing and lamenting his sin of murder, the sense is, if Cain was so severely punished for killing one man, of how much sorer punishment am I deserving, and shall have, who have killed two persons, and that after I had seen the punishment of Cain, and yet took no warning by it? or if he that killed Cain, who slew his brother, was to be avenged sevenfold, or to seven generations, then how much more, or longer, shall he be avenged, that shall slay me, who have slain none, or however not designedly; and therefore you may be easy and quiet, your fears, either from God or man, are groundless.

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Genèse 4:24 In-Context

22 Tsilla, de son côté, enfanta Tubal-Caïn, qui forgeait tous les instruments d'airain et de fer. La soeur de Tubal-Caïn était Naama.
23 Lémec dit à ses femmes: Ada et Tsilla, écoutez ma voix! Femmes de Lémec, écoutez ma parole! J'ai tué un homme pour ma blessure, Et un jeune homme pour ma meurtrissure.
24 Caïn sera vengé sept fois, Et Lémec soixante-dix-sept fois.
25 Adam connut encore sa femme; elle enfanta un fils, et l'appela du nom de Seth, car, dit-elle, Dieu m'a donné un autre fils à la place d'Abel, que Caïn a tué.
26 Seth eut aussi un fils, et il l'appela du nom d'Enosch. C'est alors que l'on commença à invoquer le nom de l'Eternel.
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