If Cain is to be avenged seven times as much, then Lamech seventy-seven times!”

Yet if he is caught he must repay seven times over, he might even have to give all the wealth of his house.

The Lord’s words are absolutely reliable. They are as untainted as silver purified in a furnace on the ground, where it is thoroughly refined.

Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!

But the Lord said to him, “All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much.” Then the Lord put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.

The light of the full moon will be like the sun’s glare and the sun’s glare will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, when the Lord binds up his people’s fractured bones and heals their severe wound.