If the bible is literal, where did the next generation come from after Cain and Abel? What about after Noah?

Question

Abel was killed and Cain went off with his wives. Where did they come from, wouldn't they have been his sisters. If they were created out of nothing why did they have to suffer the pain caused by Adam and Eve eating the apple? Why did God kill all the humanity except the family of Noah and then expect them to repopulate the earth? Was that another case of "Where did the next generation come from?"
How did so many wives appear to be married to Cain and how many wives were permitted at that time. The question goes on to the next generation also. Who did the children of Cain and Abel marry? Who did the children of Noa's children marry? Is the word incest allowable when discussing the Bible? If not how is this explained? A less important question is what did the animals on the ark breed with following the flood? Again, there were only two of them until after the offspring was born, where did the third generation come from?

Answer 1

Yes there is a good chance that Cain's wife was also his sister, at this time the 10 commandments were not established and men could have as many wive as they wanted this was in Genesis, you do not have the ten commandents until you get to Exodus. All of us suffer because we are decendants of Adam and Eve. During the flood Noah his wife and his three sons and their wives, this is how the next generation started. Noah took 7 clean male and female animals and a pair of unclean male and female animals on the ark.

Answer 2

Yes, Cain married his sister. Adam and Eve had many more children after Cain and Abel. After he murdered Abel, Cain went off on his own. Eventually, he meets a woman. Biologically, it's his sister, but he doesn't know or care because he didn't grow up with her. Incest was not a problem back then; the gene pool hadn't had enough time to build up bad genes that affect inbreeding today. Also, who are you going to report them to?
After the Flood, there was at least a little more diversity in the gene pool with Noah's children, since Shem, Ham and Japheth did not marry sisters. (This was 1600 years after Adam and Eve.) Only the 2nd or 3rd generations after Noah would have been incestuous, but only like marrying a 1st or 2nd cousin, which would not be so bad. In either case, the gene pool would not have had enough time to accumulate bad genes. It wasn't until the time of Moses that incest was forbidden, because by then enough bad mutations would have developed as to cause problems with inbreeding.

Answer 3

Adam and Eve had many children and Noah's children and there wives were on the arc. These are the people that repopulated the world. The answer, whether you like it or not, is incest; which was not a sin at that time.

Answer 4

To answer your first question,
Genesis 4 17 Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch. 18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.

19 Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah. 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock.

To answer your second question,
6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed;
for in the image of God
has God made man.

7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it."
they grew families from their own, that is all that was left on earth.

Q3 - God cursed Adam by the sweat of his brow to eat his food ( earn his food by working)

then God wiped out humanity to start again with only Noah, his wife and his 3 sons and thier wives.

That should give you a good start. Read Genesis slowly and you will understand the rest. It doesn't have to relate to today's society. It took place about 5600 years ago

If you really wanted an answer this is it, I am not guessing. I assume that you are really asking to know better.

Answer 5

Again with the incest and the bible discussions. Different strokes for different folks. I do not believe int he literal interpretation of the Bible but many do. If you want to believe it literal, or not or do not believe at all good for you. Now find some original questions to ask.

Answer 6

You are trying to make sense of some obviously nonsensical myth written by ignorant desert peoples over 2500 years ago? Good luck!

(By the way...read the story of Noah's Ark carefully -- it is actually a mixture of two different stories. In one there is one pair of each animal; in the other there in one pair of every "unclean" animal and 7 pairs of every "clean" animal.)

Answer 7

1. you need to study the Bible and why God let all these things to happen

2. who are you to tell God what to do?

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