Genesis 4:23
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Context4:23 Lamech said to his wives,
“Adah and Zillah! Listen to me!
You wives of Lamech, hear my words!
I have killed a man for wounding me,
a young man 1 for hurting me.
Genesis 4:14
Context4:14 Look! You are driving me off the land 2 today, and I must hide from your presence. 3 I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”
1 tn The Hebrew term יֶלֶד (yeled) probably refers to a youthful warrior here, not a child.
2 tn Heb “from upon the surface of the ground.”
3 sn I must hide from your presence. The motif of hiding from the