Graphic Bible · Scene 17 of 18

Lamech addresses his two adult wives Adah and Zillah outside a modest ancient dwelling, a boastful tense gesture and their troubled attention. No reenactment of the killing, no graphic injury. One-off figures in earth-tone homespun clothing. — Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

Genesis 4:23-24

Lamech’s Boast

Two Brothers, Two Ways · Genesis 4

Story guide: Lamech boasts to his wives that he has killed a man and will be avenged seventy-sevenfold.

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23And Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my word: for I have killed a man for wounding me, even a young man for striking me.”

24For Cain is avenged sevenfold, and Lamech seventy-sevenfold.

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