Dunno man. The whole “Land of Nod” thing seems sketchy to me. If Adam and Eve were it - where did all the people in Nod come from?
Maybe you could explain that to me in understandable words.
“The whole ‘Land of Nod’ thing seems sketchy to me. If Adam and Eve were it - where did all the people in Nod come from? Maybe you could explain that to me in understandable words.”
Genesis was written by Moses. He would have referred to many places, bodies of water, etc. by the name they had during his own day.
Cities were often named after their founders. Similarly, patriarch names often became the name of a tribe or nation. So, often nations, cities, places, and people carried the same or similar names.
Adam lived for nearly a thousand years. He had Seth when he was 130. We do not know how old Cain was when he married, had children and grandchildren. We know that all of his posterity (through the male line) were destroyed in the flood. Able did not apparently ever get married and have children.
Cain and Seth married sisters who were “distant” relatives in their time / dispensation. We see, for example, even centuries later, Isaac’s sons were described as two nations. As humanity’s genes deteriorated over time, lifespans decreased and the need for genetic diversity increased. When people who are too closely related have children together, any genetic flaws that the parents share may be worsened or are more likely to be expressed and cause a disease.
Is there something else you are having trouble with?
Land of Nod is not necessarily the proper name of a place. There is a Jewish explanation that it is simply ‘the land of the wanderers’, with ‘the wanderers’ being Adam and Eve after they were expelled from the Garden.
It appears to me that there were two creations, God created man on what is called the sixth day but he created Adam long after that to start the ball rolling because the ones first created did not have the knowledge.
Just my take.