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Lamech of Cain’s Line

Sixth-generation descendant of Cain, the first recorded polygamist in Scripture, who took Adah and Zillah as wives and chanted an arrogant song boasting of slaying a man and demanding seventy-sevenfold vengeance.

Primary Scripture Citation

Genesis 4:18-24

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