Genesis 4:24 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

4 Sevenfold vengeance shall be taken for Cain: but for Lamech seventy times sevenfold.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

If Cain is avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech [will be avenged] seventy-sevenfold.

American Standard Version (1901)

If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

Common English Bible

so Cain will be paid back seven times and Lamech seventy-seven times.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Sevenfold vengeance will be given for Cain, but for Lamech, seventy-seven times."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Sevenfold vengeance shall be taken for Cain: but for Lamech seventy times sevenfold.

Genesis 4:24 Cross References

Genesis 4:15

5 And the Lord said to him: No, it shall not be so: but whosoever shall kill Cain, shall be punished sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him.

Matthew 18:22

0 And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he paid the debt.