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ἐγεννήθη δὲ τῷ Ἑνὼχ Γαιδάδ· καὶ Γαιδὰδ ἐγέννησεν τὸν Μαιήλ, καὶ Μαιὴλ ἐγέννησεν τὸν Μαθουσαλά, καὶ Μαθουσαλὰ ἐγέννησεν τὸν Λάμεχ.
Six generations pass in a single genealogical breath (Cain-Enoch-Gaidad-Mahiel-Methuselah-Lamech), ending in a second Lamech — not Noah's righteous father of Seth's line (5:25-31, whom Luke 3:36 places in Jesus's own genealogy) but Cain's, whose boasting song follows in vv.23-24. Swete's own apparatus records the descendant's name here, Μαιήλ, differently spelled in other manuscripts (Μαουια, Μαουιηλ) and differently again from the similarly-named Μαλελεήλ/Mahalalel of Seth's line in ch.5 — two lines, two sets of names, easy to conflate.
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