Did Lamech know something about his son Noe, that few of us were told?
Genesis 5: 28-30 LXX
"And Lamech lived an hundred and eighty and eight years, and begot a son. And he called his name Noe, saying, This one will cause us to cease from our works, and from the toils of our hands, and from the earth, which the Lord God has cursed. And Lamech lived after his begetting Noe, five hundred and sixty and five years, and begot sons and daughters. And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and fifty-three years, and he died."
Notes :
(1) Noe was a name called by Lamech, who said that Noe will cause us to "cease from our works, and from the toils of our hands, and from the earth, which the Lord God has cursed".
(2) Question: Does this mean that the Curse upon Adam, pronounced by the Lord God in Genesis 3:18b - 20, was to cease in the generation of Noe, the tenth generation of Adam?
see Genesis 8:21 lxx
"I will not any more curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will not therefore any more smite all living flesh as I have done. All the days of the earth, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, shall not cease by day or night."
(3) If so, was this brought about by the new covenant established by God after the Great Flood, in Genesis 9: 1 - 17, when God commanded Man to "increase, fill the earth and have dominion over it" (Gen 9:1) a second time? (The first time was in Gen 1: 28, when God commanded Adam to "Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, . . .")
cf the Curse upon Adam in Genesis 3: 18b-20:
"cursed is the ground in thy labours, in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread until thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken, for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return."
