English of Core Text: “Wives of Lemech” — it should have said “my wives”? Rather, Scripture speaks thus; and similarly “And the Lord caused to rain upon Sodom and upon Amorah sulfur and fire from the Lord” — it should have said “from Him,” but Scripture speaks thus.
On the daf / in context: The third-person self-reference is noted as a stylistic feature of Scripture, paralleled in the Sodom narrative.
Type of Learning: Custom (third-person self-reference in Scripture)What Is Learned: Scripture sometimes has a speaker refer to himself in the third person, as Lemech does and as occurs with the divine name in the Sodom account.