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Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel are not necessarily the only humans around, just the only ones mentioned so far, and if you read the entire chapter, it mentions Cain had a wife. So it's known that Adam a...
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mbomb007
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2020-11-30T18:02:09Z (almost 4 years ago)
- Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel are not necessarily the only humans around, just the only ones mentioned so far, and if you read the entire chapter, it mentions Cain had a wife. So it's known that Adam and Eve had other children (daughters), but they aren't mentioned other than that.
The passage in Genesis 4 doesn't read in the order it happened, necessarily, because it talks about Cain's descendants through Lamech's children in verses 17-22, then goes back to Adam and Eve's son Seth.- However, we don't know if Cain had a wife or sister *at that point in time* when Cain said that to God, but even if they are the only ones so far, they still knew God's command in Genesis 1:28:
- > And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
- So Cain knew that there would be many descendants to fill the earth, and he was afraid that he would be killed, because everyone new descendant born would eventually be told that Cain murdered Abel. Also, they lived much longer back then (Adam lived 930 years, Genesis 5:5).
- Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel are not necessarily the only humans around, just the only ones mentioned so far, and if you read the entire chapter, it mentions Cain had a wife. So it's known that Adam and Eve had other children (daughters), but they aren't mentioned other than that.
- However, we don't know if Cain had a wife or sister *at that point in time* when Cain said that to God, but even if they are the only ones so far, they still knew God's command in Genesis 1:28:
- > And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
- So Cain knew that there would be many descendants to fill the earth, and he was afraid that he would be killed, because everyone new descendant born would eventually be told that Cain murdered Abel. Also, they lived much longer back then (Adam lived 930 years, Genesis 5:5).
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mbomb007
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2020-11-30T18:00:18Z (almost 4 years ago)
Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel are not necessarily the only humans around, just the only ones mentioned so far, and if you read the entire chapter, it mentions Cain had a wife. So it's known that Adam and Eve had other children (daughters), but they aren't mentioned other than that. The passage in Genesis 4 doesn't read in the order it happened, necessarily, because it talks about Cain's descendants through Lamech's children in verses 17-22, then goes back to Adam and Eve's son Seth. However, we don't know if Cain had a wife or sister *at that point in time* when Cain said that to God, but even if they are the only ones so far, they still knew God's command in Genesis 1:28: > And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” So Cain knew that there would be many descendants to fill the earth, and he was afraid that he would be killed, because everyone new descendant born would eventually be told that Cain murdered Abel. Also, they lived much longer back then (Adam lived 930 years, Genesis 5:5).