Patrick jane...
Dude... if you can grasp this, you are indeed a man after my own heart! The old Jewish theologians speculated Lamech killed Cain, but that notion is lost in antiquity. I ran across such searching out my theory in the literature, and that's as close as I could get to anyone else considering such. I don't hold much faith in Jewish renderings of the OT, but even a blind wild hawg will find an acorn every now and then.
I'd never heard this before... but, the pieces of the puzzle do fit together rather amazingly. I've never heard the notion the mark of Cain was merely anonymity, quite original. Cain was worried someone would find him and kill him, even though God didn't invoke the death penalty for premeditated murder. God loosened the reins that Cain could mingle after Cain begged for mercy... but, God made it clear that if Cain decided to procreate, then Cain punched the clock on his death sentence: Sevenfold generations.
Lamech, sevenfold generations from Satan, even named his son Tubal-cain in memoriam (my theory, also) to his beloved grandfather, Cain (Genesis 4:22 KJV). Now, if you're willing to consider such, I proffer only ONE of Cain's descendants got a ticket for a cruise. Thereby, God fulfilled His promise to Cain that extended anonymity to Cain's descendant (only one) via Lamech's execution of Cain, for a total of 77 generations inclusively. Jesus WAS the 77fold generation from Almighty God, inclusively (Luke 3:38-23). Utterly blew me away when I counted these generations... quite original, btw. There was only one descendant of Cain who got a ticket for a cruise... and I proffer she was Naamah, Lamech's daughter (Genesis 4:22 KJV). I proffer Naamah was the unnamed wife of Ham, and she was the grandmother of Nimrod, king of Babel, if that raises any red flags (Genesis 10:6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11).
Furthermore, I proffer Naamah was pregnant before the ark launched, and Ham was not the father. The ark didn't stay afloat long enough for Naamah to give birth on the ark. Her descendant Asshur (Genesis 10:11 KJV) is the 'father' of the Assyrians. Asshur is the only male mentioned in Genesis 10 whose father is not explicitly identified, interestingly! And, Ezekiel was asked about Pharaoh in Ezekiel 31:1, 2, Ezekiel 31:3 KJV, Ezekiel 31:8, 9. I've not done the math to see if Asshur could have actually been THE wicked Pharaoh... but, Seth lived 912 years before the flood. I'm not sure how many years passed between the ark, and the arrival of the wicked Pharaoh in Egypt... but 900 years is quite a while! Food for thought...
Like I've said... I kinda like the Bible SyFy, unbridled quest for truth, exploring all options.
Thanks for your post, Patrick Jane!
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Complete foolishness.