2007-01-31 23:43:11 · 7 answers · asked by nahom t 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In the Jewish Biblical Legends we can discover some interesting things, although these have, in general, been cleaned up for current consumption.
At the time of Adam there were animals that lived in the Garden and Animals that lived outside the Garden.
Abel was a keeper of Sheep and Cain a tiller of the ground. One a shepherd and one a Farmer. The shepherd found favor with God and the farmer was ignored so the farmer killed the sheep rancher/shepherd.
In the Bible, when the farmer, Cain, was cast away he married a woman from the land of Nod.
In the legends of the Jews there were animals that walked like men. I prefer to think of these animals as Neanderthals.
So Cain took an animal, a Neanderthal in my opinion, as a wife.
If you read Micheal Crichton's book "Eaters of the Dead", based on a true story, at the end of the book he postulates that the "Eaters of the Dead" were a group of Neanderthals.
2007-02-01 00:39:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
At that time people lived for a few hundred years. The age of reproduction was longer than it is now. The most likely thing was that Cain married a sister. Adam and Eve could have had other children even though it was not mentioned because it did not concern the readers other than the story of Cain and Able. The Ten commandments had not been established yet and God had commanded that Adam and Eve be fruitful and multiply.
2007-02-01 00:06:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Adam was created first, then Eve was created from the rib of Adam.
After they were placed on earth, they procreated.
Their offspring were born in pigeon pairs i.e. they had twins who were one male child and one female child.
The female offspring from the first set of twins married the male offspring from the second set of twins.
The male from the first set of twins married the female from the second set of twins.
That was how their family grew.
2007-02-01 00:16:15 · answer #3 · answered by mystery woman 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Age old question. He married his sister.
BTW Abel had no family, he was murdered.
2007-02-01 00:02:10 · answer #4 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Adam and Eve had daughters, so Cain married one of the daughters which was his sister.
2007-01-31 23:50:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wasn't that Kal-el the father of Superman? I'm getting confused, I think the planet was about to explode so they sent the baby Superman off to earth in a rocket maybe!
2007-01-31 23:48:08 · answer #6 · answered by CHEESUS GROYST 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
An excellent question.
And yet christians will lie and say that god kept making more people. (yet they can't tell you where in the 'wholly babble' it says so)
So, please remember that this is mythology, and has nothing to do with the real world...
2007-01-31 23:46:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋