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Selected Verse: Genesis 4:23 - Strong Concordance

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Ge 4:23 Strong Concordance And Lamech [03929] said [0559] unto his wives [0802], Adah [05711] and Zillah [06741], Hear [08085] my voice [06963]; ye wives [0802] of Lamech [03929], hearken [0238] unto my speech [0565]: for I have slain [02026] a man [0376] to my wounding [06482], and a young man [03206] to my hurt [02250].
  King James And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Lamech said unto his wives--This speech is in a poetical form, probably the fragment of an old poem, transmitted to the time of Moses. It seems to indicate that Lamech had slain a man in self-defense, and its drift is to assure his wives, by the preservation of Cain, that an unintentional homicide, as he was, could be in no danger.
 
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14 Behold, thou hast driven me out [01644] this day [03117] from the face [06440] of the earth [0127]; and from [05921] thy face [06440] shall I be hid [05641]; and I shall be a fugitive [05128] and a vagabond [05110] in the earth [0776]; and it shall come to pass [01961], that every one that findeth me [04672] shall slay me [02026].