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Let’s assume a copyist mistakenly copied the Seth list, say, to both Seth and Cain lines. If so, he did a poor job of making this mistake. Or perhaps a series of copyists followed this initial mistake with a series of other corruptions. Bibelen (Nørrebro Teater)". jp.dk. 5 October 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-10-05 . Retrieved 10 September 2018. We’ll find out in the upcoming chapters of Genesis that Cain’s line of offspring is eventually wiped out by the great flood. But for now both Cain and Seth will have lines of descendants. Cannon, Anthon S., Wayland D. Hand, and Jeannine Talley. "Religion, Magic, Ghostlore." Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from Utah. Salt Lake City: University of Utah, 1984. 314. Print.
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We are evangelical Christians. As such our bias is Christian and we anticipate our audience to be largely Christian, somewhat Jewish, and hopefully somewhat neither.Regarding our question, Ephraim Speiser, in the Anchor Bible, notes the Cain line, and then has this to say about what he says is an appended Seth line:
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With the instrument with which a man kills his neighbour with the same shall he be killed; after the manner that he wounded him, in like manner shall they deal with him. [31] Midrash Rabbah: Genesis, Volume One, translated by Rabbi Dr. H. Freedman; London: Soncino Press, 1983; ISBN 0-900689-38-2; p. 180. A medieval legend has Cain arriving at the Moon, where he eternally settled with a bundle of twigs. This was originated by the popular fantasy of interpreting the shadows on the Moon as a face. An example of this belief can be found in Dante Alighieri's Inferno (XX, 126 [43]) where the expression "Cain and the twigs" is used as a kenning for "moon".Furthermore, we cannot be sure that Genesis 4 and 5 records an exhaustive list of generations from Cain and Seth to Noah. Perhaps the names we have are representative, with several generations deliberately left out for insignificant reasons. There’s no theological harm done if the original writer leaves out a few generations, and we recognize that “father,”“son,”“begot,” and so on do not strictly imply single generation direct lineage.