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To: sirgawain
When men began to increase on earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw how beautiful the daughters of men were and took wives from among those that pleased them.

If you simply assume that God continued to create new people beyond Adam and Eve, this makes a lot of sense. The "sons of God" were those not born but created. That daughters being born is noteworthy suggests that women were being made some other way. This also solves the whole problem of how Cain could know his wife without her being his sister.

62 posted on 11/27/2001 11:52:26 AM PST by Question_Assumptions
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To: Question_Assumptions
If you simply assume that God continued to create new people beyond Adam and Eve, this makes a lot of sense. The "sons of God" were those not born but created. That daughters being born is noteworthy suggests that women were being made some other way. This also solves the whole problem of how Cain could know his wife without her being his sister.

Question; If one of the curses to the woman in Genesis Chapter 3:16 was a increased sorrow in bringing forth children, were children born prior to the fall? and why did Eve (who was named Eve after that carastrophe) say she had gotten a man from the LORD when she bore Cain, could this mean daughters were born and not recorded (it seems the Bible records male geneaology for the record in the OT)? This of course does preclude that daughters were born prior to Cain's problems but after the fall.

You do raise an interesting issue however.

63 posted on 11/27/2001 12:38:56 PM PST by BA63
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