Lamech
Americannoun
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Just after the above-cited verse, we read in Genesis 4:19 about Lamech, who took two wives.
From Salon • Jul. 19, 2015
This Lamech is associated with another Lamech in the previous chapter and in Masonic legend the children of this other Lamech are considered founders of both Freemasonry and Geometry.
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2012
The Lamech scroll will now be opened, and the Hebrew University will publish its text.
From The New Yorker • May 6, 1955
Betenos was the wife of Lamech, one of the patriarchs in the early part of Genesis, and the identification seems established by a passage that reads, “Then I, Lamech, hastened to go in unto Betenos.”
From The New Yorker • May 6, 1955
He was greatly attached to Lamech, and when he woke up one night to find his son purple in the face with membraneous croup he could hardly realize that he might lose him.
From Cordwood by Nye, Bill
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