What was the first thing ever to be stolen?

Answer 1

Various contributors have said...

• Genesis 27 describes Rebekah and Jacob conspiring to steal a blessing from Esau. Is there an earlier example?

• Abel's life was the first thing stolen.

• I disagree. I say it was Adam andEve's innocence when they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. For the first time they felt shame at their nakedness. That is why we always see artissts' depictions of them being driven from the Garden with fig leaves covering themselves.

• I would imagine an early hominid stole a piece of flint or a stone arrowhead from another man, from another tribe, perhaps.

• Animals can also steal food and mating partners from one another.

• Homo sapiens must have stole many things from there less intelligent cousins, homo erectus. Also, only humans can predict exactly who stole something if they never really saw it, by personality traits.

• Adam's rib

• The ownership of this world was stolen from Adam in the Garden of Eden. It was the first case of a woman eating a man out of house and home.

• How bout when God took a rib from Adam to make Eve... I don't think he borrowed it....

• How about the devil stole away his good relationship with God.