2006-12-14 11:46:40 · 11 answers · asked by familygames18657 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How many children did Adam and Eve have? The Bible does not give us a specific number. Adam and Eve had Cain (Genesis 4:1), Abel (Genesis 4:2), Seth (Genesis 4:25), and many other sons and daughters (Genesis 5:4). With likely hundreds of years of child-bearing capability, Adam and Eve likely had 50+ children in their lifetime.
2006-12-14 11:51:03 · answer #1 · answered by Tim E 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible does not say how many children they had, but do the long period of life, they could have had many.
very instructions given to Adam and Eve shortly after their creation, namely: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it.” Gen. 1:28.
Obedience to this command would require that Adam and Eve have children. Then these children, in turn, would marry and bear children. This process of reproduction by succeeding generations would need to continue in order to fill the earth in harmony with God’s purpose.
The solution lies in the fact that Adam and Eve had more than two children. According to the context, they had a large family. At Genesis 5:3 we read that Adam became father to another son named Seth and then, in the following verse, we read: “He became father to sons and daughters.” (Genesis 5:4)
At that early stage of human history, when mankind was so close to perfection, such a marriage evidently did not pose the risks for the children of the union that it would today.
2006-12-14 22:38:26 · answer #2 · answered by BJ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many. The Bible says Adam had many sons and daughters (presumably with Eve). The Bible gives the names of three sons: Cain, Abel, and Seth.
2006-12-14 20:01:47 · answer #3 · answered by MNL_1221 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not numbered. The Bible says they continued to have sons and daughters.
Gen 5:4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begot sons and daughters:
2006-12-14 19:50:54 · answer #4 · answered by rangedog 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont really knoe but I know they had 3 sons.
Cain,Abel, and Seth.
They had to have Daughters because thats who the sons married to multiply the earth.
2006-12-14 19:52:24 · answer #5 · answered by Iloveu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cain and Abel are the two famous ones....they probably had more.
2006-12-14 19:48:23 · answer #6 · answered by muscgrad2002 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cain, abel, seth
genesis 5:4 ...and he had sons and daughters.
2006-12-14 19:51:36 · answer #7 · answered by work in progress 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Bible talks about 3, cain, abel, and seth but the Bible does not say if they had more
2006-12-14 19:50:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No one knows
2006-12-14 19:49:48 · answer #9 · answered by idahomike2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They must have had a bunch. and their children had a bunch. That is why we are in the shape we are in with all this inbreeding and incest.
2006-12-14 19:52:08 · answer #10 · answered by Chuck C 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋