how did Adam and eve populate the world if they only had 2 sons and one of them die how on earth or did they?

Question

did god make others

Answer 1

Where did Cain get his wife? Adam “became father to sons and daughters.” (Genesis 5:4) So Cain took one of his sisters or perhaps one of his nieces as a wife. Later, God’s Law to the Israelites did not permit the marriage of a fleshly brother and sister.—Leviticus 18:9.

One might think that after the murder of Abel, only his guilty brother Cain and their parents, Adam and Eve, were left on the earth. However, Adam and Eve had a large family. According to Genesis 5:3, 4, Adam had a son named Seth. The account adds: “The days of Adam after his fathering Seth came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters.” So Cain married his sister or perhaps one of his nieces. Since mankind was then so close to human perfection, such a marriage evidently did not pose the health risks that may imperil the offspring of such a union today.

Adam was cast out of Eden into an unsubdued earth that was cursed to produce thorns and thistles, there to sweat out an existence, harvesting the bitter fruits of his sin. Outside the garden, awaiting death, Adam fathered sons and daughters, the names of only three being preserved—Cain, Abel, and Seth. To all of his children Adam passed on hereditary sin and death, since he himself was sinful.—Ge 3:23; 4:1, 2, 25.

Consider, for example, the often-raised problem about Cain’s wife. At Genesis 4:1, 2 we read: “In time [Eve] gave birth to Cain and said: ‘I have produced a man with the aid of Jehovah.’ Later she again gave birth, to his brother Abel.” As is well known, Cain killed Abel; but after that, we read that Cain had a wife and children. (Genesis 4:17) If Adam and Eve had only two sons, where did Cain find his wife?

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) So Cain could have married one of his sisters or even one of his nieces. 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.


Seth may not have been the third child of Adam and Eve. According to Genesis 5:4, Adam had “sons and daughters,” some of whom may have been born before Seth. Seth is worthy of note because Noah, and through him the present-day race of mankind, descended from him, not from the murderous Cain. At the age of 105 years Seth became father to Enosh. Seth died at the age of 912 years.

Answer 2

Genesis 4:17 says, "Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch." Who was his wife? It is implied in the biblical text that Cain married one of his sisters. Several facts lead us to this conclusion.
First, it is clear that Adam and Eve had a number of children. Genesis 5:4 says, "After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters." Since Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, and since God had commanded them (and their descendants) to be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28), it seems reasonable to conclude that Cain married one of his many sisters. It is also possible that he married a niece or even a grandniece.
One must keep in mind that in the early years of the human race there were no genetic defects that had yet developed as a result of the fall of man. By the time of Abraham, God had not yet declared this kind of marriage to be contrary to His will (see Genesis 20:12). Laws governing incest apparently did not become enacted until the time of Moses (Lev 18:7-17; 20:11,12,14,17,20,21). Hence, there was no prohibition regarding marrying a sister (or niece or grandniece) in the days of Cain.
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Answer 3

Sorry to bust your bubble here - the Adam and Eve story is part of a creation mythology that was handed down in the Jewish culture. Almost every society has a story about how it originated - many of them are similar to the stories in Genesis, in fact. God (or gods/goddesses) came down and through some means created humans...later a big flood (earthquake, fire) ravaged most of the population which was rebuilt after the tragedy.

No one was an eyewitness to creation, so no one can say exactly how it occurred. Maybe Adam was fashioned from a dirt clod.....maybe he evolved from another life form (a talking dirt clod, perhaps?).....maybe aliens populated planet Earth when we weren't looking. Does it really matter how we got here?

Let's worry a little more about taking care of one another in the here and now, and a little less about things that happened in the misty beginnings of the human race.

Answer 4

They had other children but the Bible didn't get into the others. Eve was told she would bring forth "children" in childbirth, not just sons. Cain and Abel were the first to offer sacrifices to God and then first to quarrel, kill and die, and then Seth was born to care for his parents, so they were the only ones mentioned. The good kids got shorted, I'd say.

Answer 5

Adam and Eve did have extra toddlers. Genesis 5:3 (NKJV) And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. Genesis 5:4 (NKJV) After he begot Seth, the days of Adam have been 8 hundred years; and he had little toddlers. Adam and Eve did have many toddlers. We do basically no longer comprehend all their names.

Answer 6

Read a few chapters further.
In Genesis 5 you'll find that A&E had other children later on.
Seth is listed as son #3, and they had other sons and daughters.
The Bible itself will answer all the "cute" questions you have.

Answer 7

Actually read Genesis Chapter 4. Especally verse 25. Also read Genesis 5:4

Answer 8

They actually had three sons. The forgotten one was Seth. Check the bible. In the bible, Cain marries a woman that came out of nowhere. I think this is an ancient story that has a chapter or two lost in antiquity.

Answer 9

Great question! Further, when Cain killed Abel, he was "shunned by all" and outcast... "All"? If Adam and Eve were the first and they had two sons, who else shunned Cain?

Answer 10

Adam and Eve had more than Cain and Able. The Bible speaks also of their "brothers and sisters", of which they would have married and had sexual relations.