Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For Cain shall be avenged sevenfold: but Lamech seventy times sevenfold."
New American Standard Bible
Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”
King James Version
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Holman Bible
then for Lamech it will be seventy-seven times!
International Standard Version
For if Cain is being avenged seven times, then Lamech will be avenged 77 times."
A Conservative Version
If Cain shall be avenged seven fold, truly Lamech seventy-seven fold.
American Standard Version
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Amplified
“If Cain is avenged sevenfold [as the Lord said he would be],
Then Lamech [will be avenged]
Bible in Basic English
If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's.
Darby Translation
If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold; Lemech seventy and seven fold.
Julia Smith Translation
If Cain shall be avenged seven fold, also Lamech seventy and seven.
King James 2000
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Lexham Expanded Bible
If Cain is avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech [will be avenged] seventy and seven [times].
Modern King James verseion
For Cain is avenged seven times, and Lamech seventy-seven times.
NET Bible
If Cain is to be avenged seven times as much, then Lamech seventy-seven times!"
New Heart English Bible
If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times."
The Emphasized Bible
If, sevenfold, be, the avenging of Cain, Then, of Lamech, seventy and seven.
Webster
If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold, truly Lamech seventy and seven-fold.
World English Bible
If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times."
Youngs Literal Translation
For sevenfold is required for Cain, And for Lamech seventy and sevenfold.'
Topics
Interlinear
Naqam
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 4:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
Cain And Abel
23 Then said Lamech unto his wives Adah and Zillah, "Hear my voice ye wives of Lamech, and hearken unto my words, for I have slain a man and wounded myself, and have slain a young man, and got myself stripes. 24 For Cain shall be avenged sevenfold: but Lamech seventy times sevenfold." 25 Adam also lay with his wife yet again, and she bare a son and called his name Seth: "For God," said she, "hath given me another son for Abel whom Cain slew."
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 4:15
And the LORD said unto him, "Not so, but whosoever slayeth Cain shall be punished sevenfold." And the LORD put a mark upon Cain that no man that found him should kill him.
Matthew 18:22
Jesus said unto him, "I say not unto thee seven times: but seventy times seven times.