Then the Lord said to him, “Not so! If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” And the Lord put a mark on Cain, lest any who found him should attack him.
And the Lord said to him, “Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”
Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!
Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.
If Cain's revenge is sevenfold, then Lamech's is seventy-sevenfold.”
And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”
And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,
Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.
And the Lord said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
Kill them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!
Moreover, the word of the Lord came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and also because he destroyed it.
then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins.
then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.
And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins,
but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house.
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