@secondhand-wonderland wrote:
@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:
@secondhand-wonderland wrote:
@azureline** wrote:
The references to who Adam and Eve's chilren married are in Genesis. Most Religions would know that if they believe in the old testament.
In the days of Adam and Eve man supposedly lived for hundreds of years. Man was, at first, only two people, Adam and Eve. The couple's first three children were Cain, Abel and Seth: "After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters." (Genesis 5:4) Having had some 33 sons and 21 daughters.
Therefore Cain married either a sister or a neice. It wasn't untill after the flood that God commanded, "that near-relative marriages should not occur (Leviticus 18:6).
The debate over who became the wife of manโs first two children has gone on for centuries. The short answer is that the brothers had to marry their sisters.
where did you get the 33 sons and 21 daughters?
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It's from a footnote in the writings of the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (Antiquities of the Jews, Book 1, Chapter 2)
Definitely take it with a grain of salt, then, as the majority of biblical scholars all agree now that most of Josephus' writings are forgeries!
So who knows what is factual, and what is pure conjecture?
Best to disregard the whole thing, until there's insurmountable proof.
