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Gen 4:15 — לָכֵן (MT, SP) / Οὐχ οὕτως (LXX)
Gen 4:15 · reading in
וַיֹּ֧אמֶר ל֣וֹ יְהוָ֗ה לָכֵן֙ כָּל־הֹרֵ֣ג קַ֔יִן שִׁבְעָתַ֖יִם יֻקָּ֑ם וַיָּ֨שֶׂם יְהוָ֤ה לְקַ֨יִן֙ א֔וֹת לְבִלְתִּ֥י הַכּוֹת־אֹת֖וֹ כָּל־מֹצְאֽוֹ׃
BSB: ““Not so!” replied the Lord. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the Lord placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.”
WLC · OSHB: Original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb (lemma and morphology: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Westminster Leningrad Codex text: public domain. · BSB (public domain)
Printed reading
לָכֵן
lakhen
therefore
MT · SP (von Gall p. 6, leaf n555, read on the page image)
MTWLCSP
Alternative 1
Οὐχ οὕτως
ouch houtōs
not so
LXX (Swete, vol. 1 p. 6, leaf n37, read on the page image)
LXX
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