Genesis 4:15
Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.
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- Ezekiel 9:4 Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”
- Psalm 79:12 Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
- Genesis 4:24 If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times.”