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Genesis 4:7

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7 If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door: and unto thee shall be its desire, but do thou rule over it.

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Arcana Coelestia #428

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428. From the statements made in this verse and from those in the next it is quite clear that 'Lamech' means vastation, for he says that he has killed a man and a little one, and that Cain will be avenged sevenfold and Lamech seventy-sevenfold.

  
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