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Lamech
Sethite patriarch, son of Methuselah and father of Noah, who prophesied that his son would bring comfort from the curse on the ground.
father of Noah3 Bible books3 chapters7 verse appearances
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was a patriarch in the Sethite line, the son of Methuselah and father of . Genesis 5 records that at the birth of his son he spoke a hopeful prophecy, naming the child Noah and saying he would bring comfort from the toil and pain of the cursed ground. Lamech lived seven hundred and seventy-seven years in total, dying five years before the flood. He appears again in the genealogy of 1 Chronicles 1 and in 's tracing of the lineage of back to .
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