Lamech (Cain's descendant)

Also known as: Lamech · Role: great-grandson of Cain · First appears: The Descendants Of Cain

In the seventh generation, Lamech (Cain's descendant) killed his ancestor Cain while hunting, mistaking him for game. His young son, who guided him and pointed out the quarry, recognized that the fallen figure resembled a human and had a horn on its forehead. When Lamech realized he had killed Cain, he struck his hands together in despair and inadvertently killed his son.

Adah and Zillah wanted to separate from Lamech after these deaths, but he argued that, since he had killed without intent, he might escape the punishment Cain had faced; Adam heard the case and decided in Lamech’s favor. In the generation of the deluge, Lamech had both wives: Adah bore Jabal and Jubal, while Zillah bore Tubal-cain and Naamah.

Relationship record

Life events

• Lamech killed his ancestor Cain while hunting, mistaking him for game.(The Descendants Of Cain)
  • With: Cain
  • “The aim was good, and the quarry dropped to the ground. When they came close to the victim, the lad exclaimed: ‘Father, thou hast killed something that resembles a human being in all respects, except it carries a horn on its forehead!’ Lamech knew at once what had happened—he had killed his ancestor Cain, who had been marked by God with a horn.”
• Lamech inadvertently killed his young son when he smote his hands together in despair.(The Descendants Of Cain)
  • With: Lamech's young son (Chapter 031)
  • “In despair he smote his hands together, inadvertently killing his son as he clasped them.”
• Lamech's wives wanted to separate from him, but Adam decided the case in Lamech's favor.(The Descendants Of Cain)
  • With: Adah Zillah
  • “When they heard what he had done, they wanted to separate from him, all the more as they knew that whoever was descended from Cain was doomed to annihilation. But Lamech argued, ‘If Cain, who committed murder of malice aforethought, was punished only in the seventh generation, then I, who had no intention of killing a human being, may hope that retribution will be averted for seventy and seven generations.’ With his wives, Lamech repaired to Adam, who heard both parties, and decided the case in favor of Lamech.”
• Lamech had two wives, one for child-rearing and one for carnal indulgence.(The Descendants Of Cain)
  • With: Adah Zillah
  • “The corruptness of the times, and especially the depravity of Cain's stock, appears in the fact that Lamech, as well as all the men in the generation of the deluge, married two wives, one with the purpose of rearing children, the other in order to pursue carnal indulgences, for which reason the latter was rendered sterile by artificial means.”
• Adah and Zillah each bore Lamech two children: Jabal and Jubal, and Tubal-cain and Naamah.(The Descendants Of Cain)
  • With: Adah Zillah Jabal Jubal Tubal-cain Naamah
  • “The two wives of Lamech, Adah and Zillah, bore him each two children, Adah two sons, Jabal and Jubal, and Zillah a son, Tubal-cain, and a daughter, Naamah.”

The Descendants Of Cain

• with Cain (Cain is Lamech's great-grandfather.) “The end of Cain overtook him in the seventh generation of men, and it was inflicted upon him by the hand of his great-grandson Lamech.”
• child: Lamech's young son (Chapter 031) “This Lamech was blind, and when he went a-hunting, he was led by his young son, who would apprise his father when game came in sight, and Lamech would then shoot at it with his bow and arrow.”
• married with Adah “The two wives of Lamech, Adah and Zillah, bore him each two children, Adah two sons, Jabal and Jubal, and Zillah a son, Tubal-cain, and a daughter, Naamah.”
• married with Zillah “The two wives of Lamech, Adah and Zillah, bore him each two children, Adah two sons, Jabal and Jubal, and Zillah a son, Tubal-cain, and a daughter, Naamah.”
• child: Jabal “The two wives of Lamech, Adah and Zillah, bore him each two children, Adah two sons, Jabal and Jubal, and Zillah a son, Tubal-cain, and a daughter, Naamah.”
• child: Jubal “The two wives of Lamech, Adah and Zillah, bore him each two children, Adah two sons, Jabal and Jubal, and Zillah a son, Tubal-cain, and a daughter, Naamah.”
• child: Tubal-cain “The two wives of Lamech, Adah and Zillah, bore him each two children, Adah two sons, Jabal and Jubal, and Zillah a son, Tubal-cain, and a daughter, Naamah.”
• child: Naamah “The two wives of Lamech, Adah and Zillah, bore him each two children, Adah two sons, Jabal and Jubal, and Zillah a son, Tubal-cain, and a daughter, Naamah.”
• elder kin: Cain “The end of Cain overtook him in the seventh generation of men, and it was inflicted upon him by the hand of his great-grandson Lamech.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume I. Made with Rho MD.