the ten commandments states there should be no incest?

Question

well if adam and eve was the so called first two people on earth,and they had children surely the next in line would have to create incest

Answer 1

Genesis 4:16-18

And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the East of Eden.

And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son Enoch.

And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.

(It seems to me like there were more than just Adam & Eve, huh)

Answer 2

The Ten Commandments came at the time of Moses. Which were many years before Adam and Eve. And as time went by, the laws were enforced.

Now, the law of God, has been completed and so, it makes sense what it means by no incest. This is logical, common sense.

I rather believe we came from humans than monkeys. Hence, how come the monkeys of today are still monkeys. I rather believe we came from Adam and Eve than some mamal that evolved to man.

But the main thing, one should not criticise any religion for this shows ignorance instead of wisdom. Use knowledge to debate not opinion and state the knowledge.

That way we may all learn to know about each other and work together to understand the why, how, what and when.

Answer 3

In the 10 commandments themselves there is no law against incest. But, the 6th commandment states "Thou shall not commit adultery" which is usually taken to mean you should not sleep with people you are not married to. God did give laws to the Israelites about not marrying their siblings. So, in a long and drawn out way, the commandments do forbade incest.

Also, the 10 commandments did not come into existence until thousands of years after Adam and Eve supposedly existed.

Answer 4

Not one of the Ten Commandments but is stated in Leviticus 18:6-18. This was after Genius, i.e. after Adam and Eve.
The species is expected to do what it needs to do to survive. Incest is no longer a survival measure.

Answer 5

Very good question! This is my opinion. Adam and Eve were to populate the earth. They had to have relations with each other to do so. I don't believe they were brother and sister because they were both created by God. Now their offspring would have to have relations with other offspring to continue the population of the earth true, but the 10 commandments were given to Moses quite a while after Adam and Eve were gone. I believe there was enough population at that time so that when people had offspring it was not with a close relation of theirs. I hope this makes sense to you.

Answer 6

Actually the Ten Commandments were not given until the time of Moses and in regard to Adam and Eve..... God told them to inhabit and replenish the earth... So incest would not have been an issue at the time of Creation..... I suggest you read the Creation account and then read the Ten Commandments in Exodus or Deuteronomy of your bible. It says you shall not committ adultery and it says you shall not covet your neighbors house or belongs. It says nothing about incest.

Answer 7

This battered my head for ages, until I started taking the word of religious books not literally, but as efforts to explain away human existance ( a question many ponder ). Could the Adam and Eve tale be interpreted as the world being populated by a small group gene pool.

Religion aside, evolution can explain where mankind came from, but what did life come from?? After all, "god created 'man' in his own image"
Maybe I should do this as a question.

Answer 8

(From source)
I am just finishing my first year of Biblical Hebrew, but it is my understanding that God did not create Adam, God created adam which means human. It is not a proper name so much as it is a species name.

The word adam is not about males. Ish is the Hebrew word for man or husband.

Eve is the English for the Hebrew hhava which means life. She is called Life because she is the mother of all living. (Gen 3:20). So in that sense, we are designated her kind by God. ;)

English Bibles seem to have all been influenced by the early translations. They contain words that are familiar and comforting to many, I appreciate that. It doesn't make them accurate, though.

God creates scholars, linguists, allows us to uncover hidden scrolls 1000s of years after the Bible was written. Wouldn't it be a shame to ignore all these gifts and the insights they can give us into God's word?

(again from source)
Glenn,

Talmida is correct according to what I have been reading (I have not studied Hebrew directly). It is hugely important that 'adam' is Hebrew for human or human race. It has no connection to the male gender.

What may have happened is that "adam" was translated in English as "man" meaning "human race", but people now read that to mean "man" meaning "human race with a male example".

'adam' is a transliteration of the hebrew characters, in hebrew it means human, but in English Adam is a male name. Hebrew has gramatical gender so in cases where 'adam' is in a sentence with a noun with male gramatical gender it takes a male gramatical form (this is what happens in Genesis 1:27) that does not make it male - but when you have the combination of these factors it is easy to see 'oto' has often been translated incorrectly as 'him' in English.

Dr Nyland has a whole chapter on this subject.

Your quotes from the New Testament are powerful when you have an understanding that the 'adam' that came first (before 'Adam' and 'Eve' when the male and female were separated) is human not male human. IMHO this makes the NT passages even more powerful as they speak to all humanity.

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Answer 9

That must have been on the third tablet that Mel brought down from the mountain (he pronounced the fifteen commandments, dropped a tablet, and then said ten commandments).

Incest was not part of the ten commandments ... but it doesn't make it right

Answer 10

As the 10 Commandments didn't pop up till Moses did his thing some time after Adam and Eve were around, I guess they and their kids were in blissful ignorance of what they should and shouldn't do. Except for that snake messing it all up for everyone. Pesky reptile.

Answer 11

It wasnt one of the ten commandments, (and I know I just watched the dvd, Chuck Heston said no such thing)
Of course, covering your neighbours ox was in there which does of course create a great moral dilemma. Is it worse to have carnal knowlege of your blood relatives than it is to hike a tarpaulin over the bloke next doors livestock?

(yes before you Christians get all @rsey, I knows covet. I was using levity)