Go forth an procreate! But, with who?

Question

When GOd told Adam and Eve to go forth and procreate, they did, of course, with each other, having Cain. But then, who did he procreate with? And then, who next? and so on and so on .... Are we all inbred?

Answer 1

The Bible says Adam had many sons and daughters. Therefore, Cain (and Seth and so forth, all except Abel) had to take one of his sisters as a wife. Everyone was "inbred" for the first few generations.

Genesis 5:4 (NIV)
After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

Centuries later, the Law of Moses prevented all kinds of incest: parent-child, brother-sister, uncle-niece, aunt-nephew, grandparent-grandchild, as well as the corresponding in-laws, with some exceptions. First cousins were not forbidden to marry, and many continued to marry their cousins.

Answer 2

It is written Adam & Eve had Cain, Able, Seth and then more sons & daughters.

A man shall leave his parents and find his woman and they shall become one flesh (and procreate).

Before the Tower of Babal fell, people lived nearly 1000 years, so had plenty of time to make lots of children. After a while, children born to sisters & brothers became deformed so it is best not to marry ones sister or brother.

Answer 3

Genesis 4:
16 Then Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.
17 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son - Enoch.

Interesting, Cain leaves Eden, travels to a land called Nod, where he found a woman. Where did she come from? There are ideas that I will not pursue here. He had a child whom he named Enoch. Then he built a city and named it after his son.

Read Genesis 4, and judge for yourself what you have read.

Answer 4

At first, all people "inbred". But that was a time of a new earth and pure blood not messed up people who didn't care about the envrionment or their own bodies.

As you read the Bible, you see that things changed. The messing up of the world and themselves began to show up in both nature and people's bodies.

Answer 5

After Cain killed his brother God sent him out of His presence to live in the land of Nod - a place East of Eden

Genesis 4:16
So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

If God could make one man why would you think he couldn't make more in another place - they are a part of the story but not a major focus so they are not spoken of with much detail

Answer 6

Well, either Adam and Eve were quite busy, and genetics had not evolved such that inbreeding hurt at the time...or God created other people that the Bible does not mention.
Of course if evolution holds, then the story is entirely different.
Charles "That Cheeky Lad"

Answer 7

To a degree. Forget the Adam and Eve tale -- it's fiction. There was one male and one female progenitor whose genes are now held by everybody, but they never saw each other -- they lived 250,000 years apart.

Answer 8

Cain probably married his sister or a close cousin, you wanna call it inbred? go right ahead.
No matter if God created us or we evolved from monkeys you would still have the same question.

Answer 9

if you go by the crazy stories in the bible then eve had to sleep with her son, so yeah if you believe in that then we are all inbred.

Answer 10

A long asked question... never an answer. Just one of the many things about christian mythology that is contradictory and downright silly.

People take these stories way to seriously.