Lamech killing Cain accidentally with an arrow. Marble relief by Italian Renaissance sculptor Giovanni Antonio Amadeo on the Cappella Colleoni in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. According the Book of Genesis, Cain wearing animal skins was killed by Lamech accidentally because his son who helped him to steer to the target thought from a distance it was an animal.

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