this one always confused me. God created Adam and Eve. They had two BOYS Cain and Able.?

Question

There is no mention of a girl child being born to Adam and Eve, so you tell me how was the human race created. The only conclusion that I could come up with is that there had to be incest between Eve and her two son's. Even if Eve got pregnant by Adam there is no mention of it in the Bible. This tells me that we must all be related.I would really like to hear what your opinion is.

Answer 1

Cain’s Brothers and Sisters
In Genesis 5:4 we read a statement that sums up the life of Adam and Eve: “After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters.”

During their lives, Adam and Eve had a number of male and female children. In fact, the Jewish historian Josephus wrote, “The number of Adam’s children, as says the old tradition, was thirty-three sons and twenty-three daughters.”7

Scripture doesn’t tell us how many children were born to Adam and Eve, but considering their long life spans (Adam lived for 930 years—Genesis 5:5), it would seem logical to suggest there were many. Remember, they were commanded to “be fruitful, and multiply” (Genesis 1:28).

The Wife
If we now work totally from Scripture, without any personal prejudices or other extrabiblical ideas, then back at the beginning, when there was only the first generation, brothers would have had to marry sisters or there wouldn’t have been any more generations!

We’re not told when Cain married or many of the details of other marriages and children, but we can say for certain that Cain’s wife was either his sister or a close relative.

A closer look at the Hebrew word for “wife” in Genesis reveals something readers may miss in translation. It was more obvious to those speaking Hebrew that Cain’s wife was likely his sister. (There is a slim possibility that she was his niece, but either way, a brother and sister would have married in the beginning.) The Hebrew word for “wife” used in Genesis 4:17 (the first mention of Cain’s wife) is ishshah, and it means “woman/wife/female.”

And Cain knew his wife [ishshah], and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son—Enoch (Genesis 4:17).
The word ishshah is the word for “woman,” and it means “from man.” It is a derivation of the Hebrew words ‘iysh (pronounced: eesh) and enowsh, which both mean “man.” This can be seen in Genesis 2:23 where the name “woman” (ishshah) is given to one who came from Adam.

And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman [ishshah], because she was taken out of Man [iysh]” (Genesis 2:23).
Thus, Cain’s wife is a descendant of Adam/man. Therefore, she had to be his sister (or possibly niece). Hebrew readers should be able to make this connection easier; however, much is lost when translated.

Answer 2

they talk of Cane going out into the wilderness as punishment for his sin against his brother and out in the wilderness he found his wife. Now we don't know much about her , but it is not Eve, I could be one of his sisters because the bible does say the live to be very old like Noah was over 600 years old. you see the earth was pure the destruction of Eden was recent and the earth was pure so they lived a long long time. It is funny because people say we are living much longer these days but the oldest people get is about 100 years old. so back when the earth was new the people lived a lot longer.By the way so did the animals.and from what have been told reptiles never stop growing you can imagine how big an alligator would get after 600 years it would be like a dinosaur , get it

Answer 3

No I think it was a bit more than that.. Adam and Eve were selected from other creatures on this planet to be the parents of homo sapiens (modern man) and they had 2 boy's .. one which was killed and the other was made to be a wanderer for murdering his brother. (They also had one other boy named Seth but nothing more is said about him). Once put out of the garden they had to mingle with the lesser creatures or neatherthals. That was their punishment to live in hardship but their genetics continued.
Like one of the other answers mentioned, the Bible doesn't put every name, nor every event in history, inside the Bible, these books were to give a general idea. Even today many events happen that are not recorded but are know and passed on verbally family to family, but its nothing the whole world has to know about its not important to the world.

Answer 4

Genesis chapter 4
--- Cain was a farmer
--- He killed his brother Abel
--- God condemned him to be a fugitive and a vagabond
--- Nevertheless, Cain led a fairly settled life
--- He travelled into the land of Nod
--- Married a woman (where did she come from?)
--- And then built a city (A city when there were only four or five people on the planet? A village would have been more appropriate.)

Answer 5

The book of Genesis is full of references to other people. In chapter 4, for example, it talks about how Cain is afraid that other people will kill him for murdering his brother.

In fact, the bible never says that Adam and Eve were the only people in the world. All it says is that they were the people god created. The rest is just a misrepresentation by hundreds of years of preachers.

Answer 6

Actually, Adam and Eve had a lot more children than just Cain and Abel. One more of their children, Seth, is named in the bible. And it is made clear that many more children followed Seth. As far as any "incest" being a sin, back then God had given humans only one law: Be fruitful and multiply. That was all they had to do. All of the other laws, including incest, would only be set by God much, much later.

Answer 7

This has been asked far too many times.

In the Bible, plain as day, if you actually, you know READ it, it says Adam and Eve and sons AND daughters. Just because they aren't mentioned by name doesn't mean they weren't present in the story.

Answer 8

Genealogy usually was only concerned with male descendants.

I think in chapter 3 of Genesis it says something like "and the days of Adam were 930 years, and he begat sons and daughters".

It was proper for sons to marry daughters until a few hundred years after the flood, only then did it become a sin.

Answer 9

There were many more after the murder of Cain.

Holy Scriptures should not be treated as history books. These are only guide lines for humanity. The rest is preached by the prophet of the time.

Answer 10

Bingo. And there are people, like Mike Huckabee, who believe this word for word. So maybe there wasn't incest between Eve and her sons. Then there must have been incest between the two boys and their sisters.