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[-] Lojcs@lemm.ee 16 points 9 months ago

Couldn't God just create more humans after the first three? Is it certain that he creates 3 and then explicitly stops?

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Eve had two sons. Cain found a wife "somewhere". Cain was also marked so no one would kill him, but the three other people known to exist were his parents and dead brother.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

Cain found a wife in the Land of Nod. It's never explained where those people came from.

[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Genesis 5:4. Eve had three named sons (Cain, Abel and Seth), but also other sons and daughters. That would be where Cain found his wife.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

But he was cursed and went East, presumably to another tribe? Need to read Genisis again.

LOL, the two creation myths confused me as well. That's another interesting tale to take apart.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

He apparently did. Cain was sent east of Eden to the Land of Nod where he found a wife.

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

So, what a lot of people don't realize is a large percentage of the Bible is just lineages.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

how many ribs do you think adam has?

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