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
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
By this time, the Metropolitan had announced that he would not sell the Lamech roll separately.
From The New Yorker • May 6, 1955
The first polygamist on the same authority was Lamech, who was of the sixth generation after Adam, for he “took unto him two wives.”
From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Ringrose, Hyacinthe
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