 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. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.  Notes and Queries - Page 2551853Full view - About this book
 | sir Edward Denny (4th bart.) - 1849 - 204 pages
...read, "said unto his wives Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech : I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt." Now what does he mean by these words ? He here confesses a crime — a deed of blood, it is true —... | |
 | Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette - 1850 - 584 pages
...and iron : and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, ' Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my...seven-fold, truly Lamech seventy and seven-fold.' " And Adam knew his wife again, and she bare a son, and called his name Seth : ' For Jehovah," said... | |
 | George Bush - 1850 - 380 pages
...16. 23, i the sister of Tubal-cain was Naaraah. 23 And Lamech said rjnto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my...a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. David is expressly described as playing upon it with his hand ; but it appears from Josephus that it... | |
 | Charles Mountford Burnett - 1850 - 340 pages
...mention is made of the manner in which Cain came to his end, which explains that passage in Genesis, " I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt." — Gen. iv. 23. The narrative in the Book of Jaser is as follows : — " And Lamech was old and advanced... | |
 | 1850 - 830 pages
...and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. 23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Ӕ 4 I have slam a man to my wounding, and a young man 1 to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold,... | |
 | J. P. Fokkelman - 1999 - 226 pages
...poem, with a length of one strophe and made up of three verses in the technical sense: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my...avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. These are three so-called bicola, that is six half-verses (six printed lines in our translations),... | |
 | Wim van Mierlo - 1999 - 212 pages
...adolescentem vibicibus meis Septies vindicabitur Cain Et Lemek septuagies et septies. [Adah and Zillah. Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for 1 have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. 1f Cain shall be avenged sevenfold,... | |
 | Peter-Eric Philipp, Andrew Lang - 2000 - 442 pages
...moments of stronge motion, expresses himself in song. A typical example is the Song of Lamech in Genesis "I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt." Instances perpetually occur in the Sagas: Grettir, Egil, Skarphedin, are always singing. In KIDNAPPED,... | |
 | J. E. Tiles - 2000 - 352 pages
...boast of Lamech, a descendant of Cain, illustrates the tendency for the exchange of injury to escalate: 'For I have slain a man to my wounding and a young man [a man's son] for the hurt I received. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and... | |
 | John Phillips - 2001 - 390 pages
...wives . . . Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech . . . I have slain a man to my wounding [for my wound] and a young man to my hurt. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold." The Septuagint renders that "seventy times seven," which makes Lamech's boast stand out in sharp contrast... | |
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