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The wives of Adam's sons.


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Where did the sons of Adam find wives?

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53 minutes ago, Berean said:

Where did the sons of Adam find wives?

The short answer is that they married their sisters or cousins/close relatives.   The gene pool was not corrupted like it is today and so marrying one's sister didn't have the problems associated with such an act in our day.

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Just a thought, how could they have cousins or close relatives if they were the only ones?

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3 hours ago, Berean said:

Where did the sons of Adam find wives?

They had two choices.

  • sisters
  • nieces

Incest was not defined by God until the Law came thousands of years later.  By that time enough mutations had occurred in the DNA level that marrying close relatives was dangerous.

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5 hours ago, Berean said:

Just a thought, how could they have cousins or close relatives if they were the only ones?

Genesis 5:4

After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters.

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12 hours ago, Berean said:

Where did the sons of Adam find wives?

I am getting old now and soon enouph I will meet Adam , I want to know how tall he was....

And who knows what else they will say about their experiences, that will be interesting, or they would like to know about ours, and the airplanes...about what else..

Did they ever get to see the sea....

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19 hours ago, Berean said:

Just a thought, how could they have cousins or close relatives if they were the only ones?

Well, it is important to remember that conditions were different and people were living to be 800, 900 years old and so the ability to have lots of children was pretty great.   Humanity was reproducing in greater numbers than we realize.  80 years old at that time, was not like 80 years old today.  A woman's children bearing years would have lasted for centuries in her life given how long they were living.   So by the time people  Cain took his wife, there were many, many people on the planet. 

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On 10/10/2018 at 5:57 AM, Cletus said:

So back then a woman might have said something to the effect of... my limit on number of children to have is 500, after that i am done.  LOL. 

Sometimes people can be so selfish... {WINK} Suppose d/h wanted 600 children?

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In all seriousness, I would only add that the mortality rate was probably very high.  There were no doctors, science researchers, if somebody got sick or injured or ate something poisonous or whatever... As one said, there was no Law... Adam and Eve might have had children with their children as well as bothers and sisters and cousins and nieces and nephews having children. 

What is so serious about incest is that we all have errors in our DNA, by mating with distance relatives (which we all actually are since Noah and Mrs. Noah and further back to Adam and Eve are the progenitors of us all) it reduces the likelihood of similar / precise defects in the DNA producing the mental and physical defects in children of incest.

This is why we really screwed up with test tube babies, sperm banks, surrogacy, etc. and we give each privacy rights that can actually cause incest unawares. 

Not to mention with the aid of Eharmony and sites like it exacerbating the problem by matching candidates, with the common likes and traits in potential mates being more heredity than personal preference... what a mess.... mankind always tries to tamper with what God creates or prescribes...

Turns out, God had it right all along.

Go figure.

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It would be easier if one understood that they were not the first people

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