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Subject: Did Cain marry one of his sisters? |
Bible Note: Greetings Magellan, Consider the following per you post 174645? Please observe that some of the following is not explicitly written in the Word of God. I am not adding to the Word of God but trying to expound on some given facts that are written. In the Scriptures the lineage of the genealogies that are mostly enhanced upon are those that point to Christ, and or, are instructional by example. Sometimes starting with the firstborn but mostly the more significant member of the lineage and the lesser prominent roles in God’s design of history are listed as other sons and daughters. For instance, Mat. 1:2, Jacob is mentioned but not Esau. Jacob being the significant in the lineage. Therefore, the least significant may not have even been recorded. When these lesser prominent ones were born is not always told either. This is most evident in the genealogies of Chronicles were some names are listed but not all have much of their history expounded upon. Moreover, sometimes the order of listings is yet different again. In 1 Chr 2:1 we see the tribe of Judah, the lineage of Christ, is listed forth in order. In (Gen 5:3) “And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:”. So, Adam was 130 years old when he had Seth. This could give way for many less prominent persons to be born within that period of time. Hypothetically, if Adam and Eve started having children at the age of 18 and if each male offspring mated with a sister and those in turn, had at least 4 children, and they in turn had children at 18 years old, the population would expand to be around 254 when Adam turned 126 years old. Therefore, Cain’s remark about being slain in Gen 4:14 has merit. If we calculate this formula until Adam was at the age of 576 and all the offspring had 4 children the population would be around 8 billion. That is just mathematically if all things remained constant. These are more likely possibilities that can be used as to Cain’s wife and his worries about ‘whoever finds him will kill him’. In Gen.4:4 it tells us that Abel took the firstlings (plural) of his flock. Now, two sheep with an offspring is not considered a flock. These offerings to the Lord most likely were at each season of the offspring and harvest. There had to be sufficient time for the use of the word “flock”. Therefore it could have been many seasons before this particular event took place for the Scripture says in Gen 4:3 “And in the process of time it came to pass”. This use of this phrase does not have a time period related to it. Some say it was a week some say it was a year but you can’t raise a flock in a week or a year, so the time span must have been many seasons or years. Therefore using this as a long period of time and the idea that Cain and Abel have offered sacrifices to the Lord each season, the event of the offering in Gen 4:3 has no basis that this is the first time they ever offered their sacrifices. Now concerning Adam’s other sons and daughters, in Gen chapter 5, it is listed as “The book of the generations of Adam. One will notice that Cain and Abel are not listed in the genealogies. This is also true in 1 Chr 1:1. The ‘lineage’ starts with Seth. Cain was outcast by God, and Able was dead, therefore the lineage that was of a concern toward Christ, was Seth and not being listed, Cain and Able, doesn’t mean they didn’t exist. This could also be true about the “other sons and daughters” during the times that Cain and Able were still living family members. In Gen 4:17 “And Cain knew his wife...”, ( Keil and Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament) comments: “ The text assumes it as self-evident that she accompanied him in his exile; also, that she was a daughter of Adam, and consequently a sister of Cain.” Notice in Gen 4:1 when Cain was born, Eve states, “I have gotten a man from the Lord” … a man, not a seed. When Seth was born Eve states in Gen 4:25 “God hath appointed me another seed instead of Able...”. Able was the “seed” but was killed. Seth became the “another seed”, used here to indicate a significant character in the lineage, which leads us to Christ (Luke 3:38). Division of families: Does not always include the listing of family members. Consider the separation of Abraham and Lot. (Gen 13:10) And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. (Gen 13:11) Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. This important family separation does not list Lot’s wife either or even if he had one at the time of separation or married and sired while in Sodom. Yet we know of their flight from Sodom being four of them. Thanks for your attention, eklektos |