If Adam, Eve, & Cane were the only humans where did the people of "Nod" come from?
Regards,
GtG
Genesis 4:16-17 King James Version (KJV)
16 And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
Lots of "begating" ensued and Cain's blood line carried on through Genesis 4:27 and includes Methuselah.
Regards,
GtG
Genesis 4:1Now the man [a]had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to [b]Cain, and she said, “I have gotten a [c]manchild with the help of the Lord.” 2 Again, she gave birth to his brother Abel.
Then the second half of verse 2
And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the Lord of the fruit of the ground. 4 Abel, on his part also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and for his offering;
So, obviously much time has passed just in verse 2.
Then we come to verse 25
25 Adam had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, she said, “God has appointed me another offspring in place of Abel, for Cain killed him.” 26 To Seth, to him also a son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of the Lord.
We have no idea the time period between when Cain killed Abel and when Seth was born. I would think, maybe a few years.
In Genesis 3, God tells Adam and Eve the penalty for there sin.
:16 To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you.”
To multiply her pain in child birth, implies she was already involved with child birth. Otherwise, how would you multiply something that doesn't already exist?
Point being, if a generation were 20 years, and we used 100 years between Cain being born and when he killed Abel, that would be 5 generations. If generations started at a younger age, such as 13, when some speculate Mary was when pregnant with Jesus, then that could be 8 generations.
If the first generation had 6 kids and then each subsequent generation had 6 kids each.
gen 2 would be 36 kids.
gen 3 would be 216.
gen 4 would be 1296.
gen 5 would be about 7800.
gen 6 would be 46,800.
gen 7 would be about 325,000.
gen 8 would be about 2.6 million.
God did not stop creating humans when he completed Adam and Eve.
Where do you get the idea that they were the only humans?
Cain could have fallen many centuries after his birth, after many generation has come into being and spread to different regions.