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Lamech sin greater than Cain's one?
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===Translation of [[Tanakh:Genesis_4:23|Genesis 4:23]]===
Lamech said to his wives Adah and Zillah: Hear my voice, wives of Lamech, hear my saying, because I have killed a man as my wound and a child by my hit.
===Translation of [[TODOTanakh:Genesis_4:24|Genesis 4:24]]===
"My wound and... my hit" can be understood either as that Lamech said killed two people by the wounds he have caused to forgetting himthem, or as psychological trauma of the killer (Lamech) himself.
Why the avenge of Lamech said to his debtis greater than for Cain?
One preacher says: Cain was ashamed of his sin an afraid of a punishment, but Lamech said to lending himwas not ashamed but reversely proudly made a poesy about his killing and proudly assumed that the punishment for the revenge would be not 7 but 77 times.
