Endnote 2 – Biblical Views: Did Cain Get Away with Murder?

In Genesis 4:23, Lamech boasts “I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.” Modern commentators view this statement as an example of Hebrew parallelism rather than a claim by Lamech to have killed two separate people. But ancient interpreters often understood the verse to mean that Lamech killed both Cain and a younger son.