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
In Genesis chapter five 187 is the age at which Methuselah begets Lamech.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2012
By this time, the Metropolitan had announced that he would not sell the Lamech roll separately.
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
This is expressed in the additional words of Lamech: V. 24.
From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by Lenker, John Nicholas
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