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
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
I understand this passage therefore as words spoken by Lamech or Noah as a new message to the whole world.
From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by Lenker, John Nicholas
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