how did adam and eve's sons find wives and how did noah and his family repopulate the world if that is really what happened?
2006-12-23 08:41:41 · 6 answers · asked by curyouss1 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
incest
2006-12-23 08:44:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cain married his sister, etc. There were no laws on incest until the Mosaic Law in 1513 BCE. Adam was created in 4026 bce.
(Genesis 5:3-5) 3Â And Adam lived on for a hundred and thirty years. Then he became father to a son in his likeness, in his image, and called his name Seth. 4Â And the days of Adam after his fathering Seth came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and DAUGHTERS(my cap). 5Â So all the days of Adam that he lived amounted to nine hundred and thirty years and he died.
As far as Noah, his sons & their wives they had sex.
2006-12-23 17:10:15 · answer #2 · answered by THA 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where did Cain get his wife if there was just one family?
Gen. 3:20: “Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she had to become the mother of everyone living.” (So all humans were to be the offspring of Adam and Eve.)
Gen. 5:3, 4: “Adam lived on for a hundred and thirty years. Then he became father to a son in his likeness, in his image, and called his name Seth. And the days of Adam after his fathering Seth came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters.” (One of Adam’s sons was Cain, and one of Adam’s daughters must have become Cain’s wife. At that time in human history when humans still had outstanding physical health and vitality, as indicated by the length of their lives, the likelihood of passing on defects as a result of marrying a close relative was not great. After some 2,500 years of human history, however, when mankind’s physical condition had greatly deteriorated, Jehovah gave to Israel laws forbidding incest.)
Gen. 4:16, 17: “Cain went away from the face of Jehovah and took up residence in the land of Fugitiveness [or, Nod] to the east of Eden. Afterward Cain had intercourse with his wife [“knew his wife,” that is, intimately so, KJ, RS; “lay with his wife,” NE] and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch.” (Notice that Cain did not first meet his wife in the land to which he fled, as if she were from another family. Rather, it was there that he had sexual relations with her to produce a son.)
This was the only way to populate the earth. After a time God didn't let this happen anymore. Now it is incest.
2006-12-23 16:54:23 · answer #3 · answered by Alex 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve have daughters, to marry a sister at that time was not prohibited by God because they were still close to perfection and it would not create problems with offsprings (deformities, abnormalities). Now in our times, it is not allowed since too much imperfection will bring too much abnormalities.
Noah's sons have wives and they bore children and so on and so on....
2006-12-23 16:49:43 · answer #4 · answered by Tomoyo K 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
adam and eves sons also had sisters whom they had to marry.
and noah and his wife one out of 4 couples on the arc.
2006-12-25 16:06:32 · answer #5 · answered by Chrissy WB 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a need to know thing, and we don't really need to know.
2006-12-23 16:45:25 · answer #6 · answered by timjim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋