The Song of Lamech
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εἶπεν δὲ Λάμεχ ταῖς ἑαυτοῦ γυναιξίν Ἀδὰ καὶ Σελλά, ἀκούσατέ μου τῆς φωνῆς· γυναῖκες Λάμεχ, ἐνωτίσασθέ μου τοὺς λόγους· ὅτι ἄνδρα ἀπέκτεινα εἰς τραῦμα ἐμοί, καὶ νεανίσκον εἰς μώλωπα ἐμοί·
Lamech's boast to his wives is the Bible's first poetry (marked by parallelism: "hear my voice… give ear to my words"), and its content is chilling: he escalates his ancestor Cain's crime, killing not in a field's privacy over a rejected sacrifice but ἄνδρα… καὶ νεανίσκον, "a man… and a young man," over a mere τραῦμα, "a wound," done to himself. ἐνωτίσασθέ, "give ear," is the very verb Peter later opens his Pentecost sermon with (Acts 2:14, Ἐνωτίσασθε τὰ ῥήματά μου, "give ear to my words") — an ironic echo, the summons to attention now serving the gospel rather than a murderer's brag.
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