The tradition that Cain and his descendants were killed in the flood was popular among Jewish and Christian interpreters; see John Byron, Cain and Abel in Text and Tradition: Jewish and Christian Interpretations of the First Sibling Rivalry, Themes in Biblical Narrative 14 (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 133–134.
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