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14 Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; aI shall be bhidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that canyone who finds me will kill me.”  
15 And the Lord said to him,1 “Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him asevenfold.” And the Lord set a bmark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.  

The Family of Cain

16 Then Cain awent out from the bpresence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of1 Nod on the east of Eden.  
17 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Ē´noch. And he built a city, aand called the name of the city after the name of his son—Ē´noch.  
18 To Ē´noch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehujael, and Mehujael begot Methushael, and Methushael begot Lamech.
19 Then Lamech took for himself atwo wives: the name of one was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.  
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I think the important point is just because something is recorded in the Bible does not make it law, does not mean that God endorsed it. Now, if God says thou shall do this, of course, that is law. But if we record somebody making a mistake, we learn from that just like if we record something that is a good deed. Like we saw Abigail (we heard about that from Ronny earlier) we learn from that. So let us go back to Genesis 4. I want to look at the first example of multiple wives because I really think we could probably stop here.

So Lamech, the great, great grandson of (or fifth generation I believe) from Cain (who was the first murderer) is the first documented man to have more than one wife. Now, Richard always points out the importance of the first instance in the Bible and so we might could stop here really because this is the first instance. And let us read on, let us just read about this Lamech for a minute.

Excerpted from The Two Shall become One

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