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23 Lamech said to his wives,

“Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice;
        wives of Lamech, pay attention to my words:
I killed a man for wounding me,
        a boy for striking me;
24     so Cain will be paid back seven times
        and Lamech seventy-seven times.”

25 Adam knew his wife intimately again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth[a] “because God has given me another child in place of Abel, whom Cain killed.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 4:25 Sounds like the Heb verb gave

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