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Lamech kills his son, and Noah is warned of the flood, c1320-1330. Old Testament scenes. Above left: Lamech beats his son to death with his bow, after Lamech has returned from the thicket where he found Cain, (above right), lying pierced by an arrow. Cain had been cutting firewood by improperly mutilating a living oak; his billhook lies on the ground. Below left: Noah uses an adze to build the Ark. Below right: God warns him of the flood. From the Holkham Bible Picture Book, biblical and apocryphal stories in Norman French.