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Exegesis:Genesis 4:23
Translation of 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.
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Attempts of other translations:
Lamech said to forgetting him
Lamech said to his debt
Lamech said to lending him
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congregation/gathering/testimony/advanced/Adah
and Zillah
Comments
"My wound and... my hit" can be understood either as that Lamech killed two people by the wounds he have caused to them, or as psychological trauma of the killer (Lamech) himself.