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Genesis 4:9

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9 Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"

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Arcana Coelestia #428

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428. From the contents of this and the following verse, it is very evident that by “Lamech” is signified vastation; for he says that he had “slain a man” and a “little child” and that Cain should be avenged sevenfold, and Lamech “seventy and sevenfold.”

  
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