Analysis of the geneological information in Genesis 4 and 5 reveals that the lines of Cain and Seth intermarried. The lines of Ham and Shem (Noah's sons) also intermarried. This is evident from analysis of the ancestry of Sheba the Elder and his grandson, Sheba the Younger.
At the top of the diagram, we see that Sheba, the Elder, Noah's descendent through Ham, had a daughter who married Joktan and named her first-born son after her father.
At the bottom of the diagram, we see that Joktan, Eber's son, married a daughter of Sheba the Elder. As is evident from the diagram, cousin brides named their first-born sons after their fathers. This pattern is found in Genesis 4 and 5 also. Namaah, Lamech's daughter, married her patrilineal parallel cousin Methuselah, and named their first-born son Lamech after her father.
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