Genesis 4:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say: I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.

Cross References

Genesis 4:22

Zillah bore Tubal-cain, who made all kinds of bronze and iron tools. The sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

Psalm 94:1

O Lord, you God of vengeance, you God of vengeance, shine forth!

Exodus 20:13

“You shall not murder.

Leviticus 19:18

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Numbers 23:18

Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying, “Rise, Balak, and hear; listen to me, O son of Zippor:

Deuteronomy 32:35

for the day of vengeance and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip? Because the day of their calamity is at hand; their doom comes swiftly.

Judges 9:7

When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and cried aloud and said to them, “Listen to me, you lords of Shechem, so that God may listen to you.