When Cain fled after killing Abel,he went to live in Nod.Where did the people come from?

Answer 1

If Adam and Eve lived for 930 years, how many kids you think they had during that time and how many had children of there own and so on. The land of Nod was inhabited by the children and grandchildren of Adam and Eve. They more than likely spread out to start there own families (with there brothers and sisters and cousins, etc.) It would make sence to spread out rather than they grow up as relatives and then having to marry each other better if they were more distant and more like strangers than family.

Answer 2

This is a question often asked by Christians and non-Christians alike. Upon reading Genesis 4:17 many people wonder where Cain got his wife. After all, there were only Adam, Eve, and Cain at the time right? If this was the case then where did Cain’s wife come from? It’s obvious that in order for Cain to have a wife there had to be at least one other person, a woman, in the world. To arrive at a solution to what may seem a dilemma at first we have to read the relevant Scripture in Genesis and answer the question based on the information given.

I have based my answer on the following information:

1.The first people created were Adam and Eve (only two people
Created by God). God did not create Adam, Steve, Mark, Paul,
and then create Eve, Laura, Mary, and Jane. He created one man and one woman, Adam, and Eve.

2. Cain had a wife (mentioned in Gen. 4:17).

3. Adam “begat sons and daughters” (Gen. 5:4) So, if this is how God chose to have man multiply and inhabit the earth, by beginning with only one man (Adam), and one woman (Eve) then it’s obvious that Cain’s wife had to be either his sister or his niece. She couldn’t have been a cousin or an aunt because Adam and Eve had no brothers and sisters, therefore he couldn’t have a cousin or aunt as a wife. As is written in Gen. 5:4 “he (Adam) begat sons and daughters”. It was not a sin at this point in time to take a sister or any other blood relative, as one’s wife. To prove this is simple. Today if a brother and sister were to wed each other the chances are much higher for their children to be born deformed or with serious illness than would have been the case in Adam’s day. Human genes, traits, chromosomes, and DNA back then were “very good” but are now severely corrupted through time, do to the curse placed on man since Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden. Many people in our day have a difficult time accepting the fact that Cain’s wife was his sister or niece. They look at this as an immoral and deviant union (which it is in our day). Here is something that may help people accept the idea that God condoned a man taking for his wife his sister, niece, cousin etc. All one has to do is go back to Gen. 2:21-22, there we read:

When Cain killed his brother, he was sent away for a long time and people in those time didn't live for 60 or 80 years, they lived for 100s of years, so it is more like that comming back is how he found his wife.

I could have answered this question in one sentence by stating Cain’s wife was his sister or niece” and been done with it but I felt the need to go more in depth than that. Just saying Cain took as his wife his sister would not suffice and I felt the need to provide proof this type of union was condoned by the Lord God. My answer is based solely on what I’ve read in the Bible. I have not interpreted any of the Scripture in my own personal way. I have read the relative Scripture and based my answer solely on what the Bible says. If you disagree with my answer you are more than welcome not to belive.

Have a Blessed Day!

Answer 3

Well, the bible does state there were others on earth in the time of Cain and Able so perhaps Nod had a population of creatures/people that were not created by the creator we call God or perhaps the others were but were not the final creation and man as we relate to was the final creation that God made on earth... Remember God did the great flood to rid the earth of creatures.
What about,"Able s blood called out to God", after Cain had killed him? God the creator either could not or chose not to bring Able back to life.. In the fossil record we see many types of human like creatures who are no longer here. Perhaps some of these early human like creatures were in Nod..

Answer 4

This gives posible credence to both the Divive theory and Darwin's theory of evolution. The Bible refers to Man and Mankind, by definition 'a kind of man' , also as time progresses the age of men is reduced indicating a corruption of the perfect DNA.. At the time of Cains departure after killing Able, there was no mention of sisters or other siblings, God also put a mark on him 'so all would know that he had sinned and that only God would determine his fate. So God acknowleged the existance of other 'humans', they were not 'Adamic' as they were mature, so just maybe evolution occured also. Cain married and had children , and was eventually accidently killed by his grandson.

Answer 5

Firstly, to answer YOUR question, Yim:


Yes; God has created souls and worlds without number.
The number of 'earths' and "the inhabitants thereof", or what have you, in the skies are as numerous as the sands of the seashore, by which things we may now "know that man is nothing"!
[Moses chapter 1]


To tackle the top Question:

The people, as already mentioned, were others of the many, many sons and daughters of Adam.
We assume that Cain was the first-born of all Adam's children, but there is nothing there to directly say that.

As also mentioned, people in those days lived 100s of years, and they were blessed with much greater bodies capable of making and sustaining life much more readily than we experience today.

Answer 6

They were transported here from the planet Rigel Prime in the gamma quadrant, parsec 97.

If God created man, did He only make people on Earth or did He use up some of the incomprehensible room in the rest of the universe to make a few more folks? Hummmm?

Answer 7

Monkeys!
Just kidding
Don't take it literal the Bible is MORAL literature , not a treatsie on human history and biology
for example Noah takes 2 of every animal
Ever breed the off spring of a brother and sister dog?
If they do have a litter, the pups have many birth defects, short limbs, mental slow
Noah's animals would have off spring like that for 3 or 4 generations? Not likely, heck the Old Testament forbids brother and sister mating
Its a moral lesson not a history lesson, about God's mercy and power

Answer 8

Cain took one of his sisters with him. Also Adam and Eve had more children not just Cain and Abel.

Answer 9

Some people think that he had taken Lilith as his wife. But on the comment of why they lived for hundreds of years; we were connected closer to the Divine, and because the Divine is Ageless, we took on that trait. As time progressed, we spread out, the gene pool got smaller...and so now we live to be around 80-120 years. Now if we can "re-find" that Divine Spark and kindle it, we should be able to live even longer.

Answer 10

Many people get confused about this.

In the old testament, ADAM is mentioned.

ADAM has 2 meanings.

There was Adam the PERSON (prototype if you will).
and there is ADAM (pronounced Add-DOM) that means MANKIND.

This is would explain how there were MARRIAGES. Many people think it was just "ADAM & EVE (Lilith)" where in fact there were the "Prototypes" Adam & Eve along with MANKIND. (No number of people were ever mentioned, so that is what was a bit confusing making many readers of the Old Testament think there ONLY lived Adam & Eve)