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NASB | Genesis 5:4 Then the days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 5:4 After he became the father of Seth, Adam lived eight hundred years and had other sons and daughters. |
Subject: whom did cain marry? |
Bible Note: Norrie, I grew up on a dirt road not many miles away from Dayton, Tennessee, the site of the infamous Scopes "Monkey" Trial. In those days Dayton went by the inelegant name of "Monkey Town." I rather doubt that William Jennings Bryan was unfamiliar with the terse account in Genesis pertaining to Cain's wife, and I would doubt further that Mr. Bryan had not reached a conclusion that Cain's wife was a descendent of Adam and Eve, a daughter or perhaps a grand-daughter. Why he did not choose to expand his answer beyond a simple admission of not knowing the answer, history will perhaps never be able to tell us. Possibly he did not want to expound further for fear that the agnostic Clarence Darrow would launch a counter-attack by accusing him of wild speculation. I don't fully agree with the writer's conclusion that the manner in which Bryan conducted his defense of Scripture was crucial to this trial or marked the turning point of victory for the evolutionists. The bald truth of the matter is that evolution doesn't accept the Bible as true, no matter who attempts to present an apology for Scripture. Even though Darrow and the other proponents of evolution had lost the Scopes trial, there would have been another and another until they got what they wanted. --Hank |