If Adam and Eve had two sons but no daughters how did the world get populated?

Answer 1

The Bible is clear. The Bible states in very plain and simple language at Genesis 5:4 that "...he (Adam) became father to sons and daughters." Notice the plural "sons" and "daughters." These 'sons and daughters' would be Adam's offspring, not Seth's. Seth's offspring are mentioned in verse 7, which says "Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters." Since Adam lived for 930 years, he reasonably could have fathered many, many children. His sons, including Cain, would have married their sisters, or nieces. This would sound repulsive to us today, but consider the circumstances back then. It would have been proper at that time, since the Earth's population was relatively sparse, and the human race was to be proliferated according to God's purpose. It was only later that God made the restriction not to marry one's own sister or brother.

Genesis 5:4 The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters.

As you can clearly read, the Word tells us that Adam and Eve had daughters also.

Adam didn't just have two sons, he had quite a few children. Adam's sons and daughters married each other. It seems strange to us now, but back in the day that's how they did it.

"Male and female He created them" and "be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it" is what Genesis records before the account of both Adam and Eve being brought from the earth. Evidenced by this, we can now say the eternal God created every known living human spirit from His power, which He did, and each spirit was not born from the earth yet (but all spirits that would live, male and female, were already destined to be born on earth). Creation was complete the seventh day, and here we are still reproducing; God completed all His work and blessed the seventh day, even made it holy and commanded us to rest on this day.

There is no evidence that before the fall Adam and Eve did not have children. God commanded them to "be fruitful and multiply" so we can assume that they joyfully obeyed. We don't know how long a time was between their creation and the fall. Because sin and death were not a part of the world at that time, they could have been around for a long time, multiplying and populating the earth. Then the fall happened: this would also help explain the references to cities of people a few chapters later.

God is amazing therefore he can do anything. If he has the power to create human beings why not the power to create multiple baby's in the mother's womb. Therefore, since Adam and Eve had their children, Adam's and Eve's children could create more and more children which with the help and love of God will repopulate the earth.

When God banned Cain from Paradise he gave him a mark so that no one would kill him. This implies: a. that there were other humans outside of Paradise and b. The other humans outside of Paradise have knowledge of what Cain did to his brother Abel. It is not necessary for all of God's actions to be documented in the Bible. He could have made many more men who he did not put in Paradise The Bible tells us what God wants us to know. It in no way limits his actions.

God created Earth as a temporary abode for Humans until their time on this world was done. Skipping forward, in the Islamic stories God sent down a Woman from Paradise, a Hoori, for Abel, and a Jinn in the shape of a Woman for Kabul and believe it or not, that's how they had children.

And then they married Cousins and then second cousins and third cousins which were Halal ( Allowed ) to them until there were enough people where you couldn't tell your Cousins from a random stranger.

It's useful to remember that the stories of the Old Testament are steeped in the Jewish belief that they are the 'chosen' people. The idea that God made Adam and Eve in his own image and gave them a special place in the Garden of Eden does not preclude the idea that God made other humans who were not so favored. Seen this way, Adam and Eve were given favored treatment but broke the rules, and so they were tossed out into the wider world to make their way among the unchosen peoples.

According to the 32 rules of Rabbi Eliezer: The particles "et", "gam", and "af", which are superfluous indicate that something which is not explicitly stated must be regarded as included in the passage under consideration, or that some teaching is implied thereby. This rule is used by Rashi to derive that Cain had a twin sister and Abel has two twin sisters (triplets). The Bible does not mention everyone who ever lived by name. It does mention the destiny of all who live.

Answer 2

Actually the Bible says that there were three sons, but one was killed by his brother. Anyway, the Bible says the sons found wives from the land of Nod, so apparently there were other people around to help populate the earth.

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Though there is no mention of any daughters being born to Adam and Eve, there had to be, else how did we become? Remember all was of PURE BLOOD with no contamination as there is today. The marrying of siblings was the only way to begin the populate the earth at the time of Adam and Eve.

Answer 3

There are actually three names of Adam and Eve's sons given in the book of Genesis: Cain, Abel and Seth, but that does not mean those were the only children they had, In Genesis 5:4,5 we read: "And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died." Given the fact that people lived close to a thousand years back in those days I think it is safe to assume that Adam and Eve had hundreds of children, tens of thousands of grandchildren and millions of great grand children.

Answer 4

Answer1:

The world became populated, because Adam and Eve had both sons and daughters. Their being the parents of daughters was mentioned in Genesis 5:4. It's just that the daughters remained nameless. Additionally, Adam and Eve were the parents of five sons, not two, according to Genesis 4:1, 2 and 5:3, 4. It's just that only Cain, Abel, and Seth were mentioned by name.

Answer2:

The Bible (Genesis 5:4) tells us that Adam and Eve had, "sons and daughters", however we only have a record of 3 of their sons, Cain, Abel and Seth. We also know (Genesis 5:3) that Adam was 130 years old when Seth was born, and then went on to live altogether for 930 years. Given that God instructed Adam and Eve (Genesis 1:28) to "be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth", it is anybody's guess how many sons they had. You can imagine that Adam and Eve's family grew rapidly.

A modern fertile family who don't use Birth Control might have say, 12 children during their 80 years of life. Adam and Eve lived more that 10 times that long. A conservative estimate for them would suggest perhaps 20 children every 80 years or 1 child every 4 years. That would mean, by the time Seth came along they would have had around 30 children, and perhaps about 15 of them would have been sons.

Extrapolating, and assuming Eve didn't have any more children over the last 100 years of her life), Adam and Eve could possibly have had more than 200 children, 100 of them sons.

Good question and the one which happens to be the most incorrectly answered in most cases.

To understand what I am about to discuss, you must read and understand 2nd Peter Chapter 3 and 1st Corinthians 15. You will learn in those texts that a day with the Lord is as 1000 years.

Therefore the first 7 days (week) which is mentioned in Genesis 1 & 2, concluded a period of 7000 years total. Adam was not formed until the beginning of the 2nd week, on the 8th day (also helps understand why circumcision is to occur on the 8th day as ordered of Abraham Genesis 17).

All flesh mankind (various races) were created on the 6th day of this 2nd earth eon (age). Adam was formed on the 8th day (first day of this current second week). Therefore all mankind is not of Adam and neither were they intended to be. Mankind was on this earth replenishing it as was the order given in Genesis 1:28, for 2000 years prior to ethhaadam (Adam) being formed.

Answer 5

They had daughters and plenty of them in the 900 plus years that they lived! The Bible covers allot of ground, as such, conciseness and compactness about some things are necessary. It is for this reason and others that the Bible genealogy given, lists only the sons that were born, and many times just the first born. There were others born both others sons and daughters. If you think about it, in the genealogy given from Adam till Noah, if you listed every son and and all the daughters born, the genealogy would be a library full of bible size volumes of books. It just isn't practical to list everyone. It does of course mean that Adams sons and daughters married each other early on, this continuing for a while. Later on, God forbid the practice, as it went from necessity to populate the earth, to a perversion. The resulting consequences of deformity, insanity, etc.. that sometimes results from these type of unions did not occur until after God forbid the practice.

Answer 6

The Bible only names 3 sons - Cain, Abel and Seth. But he had many other children:

Genesis 5:4New International Version (NIV)

4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

Answer 7

Adam and Eve got sons as well as daughters and not only sons. Notice that Adam lived over 900 years and of had the chance to have many sons and daughters. In the early generations, it was allowed to have marriage among brothers and sisters and hence started the population.