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- Their first children were Cain and Abel. Abel, the keeper of sheep, was highly regarded by God and was killed by Cain out of envy. Another son, Seth, was born to replace Abel, and the two human stems, the Cainites and the Sethites, descended from them.
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Apr 14, 2024 · According to Genesis 5:4, Adam had “sons and daughters,” some of whom may have been born before Seth. Seth is worthy of note because Noah, and through him the present-day race of mankind, descended from him, not from the murderous Cain.
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According to the Bible, Adam and Eve, the first human beings created by God, had several children. The most well-known of their children mentioned in the Bible are Cain, Abel, and Seth: 1. Cain: Cain was the firstborn son of Adam and Eve. Unfortunately, he became a farmer and is infamous for committing the first murder in the Bible by killing his b...
According to Genesis 4, after being exiled from the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve had two sons: Cain and Abel. Cain was the first son, the Bible doesn’t specify how much later that Abel was born. As adults, Cain and Abel took separate careers: Abel became a shepherd while Cain became a farmer (Genesis 4:2). At some point, Cain and Abel both gave off...
God approved of Abel’s offering but not Cain’s, and as a result, Cain resented his brother. Why precisely God didn’t approve of Cain’s offering is hard to say. It’s worth noting that the Bible says Cain gave “some of his crops,” without describing the quality of the offering (Genesis 4:3). In contrast, the next verse says that Abel gave “the best p...
Genesis 4:25-26 picks up after the story of Cain’s family and says that Adam and Eve had another son named Seth. After Seth was born, Eve said, “God has granted me another son in place of Abel, whom Cain killed” (Genesis 4:25). Seth later had a son named Enosh (Genesis 4:26), and genealogy in Genesis 5focuses on Seth’s descendants, ending with Noah...
Assuming that Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, and there no “Pre-Adamic” beings that humans mated with, it would seem that Cain and Seth Eve must have married women descended from Adam and Eve. As established, we don’t know when Adam and Eve started having daughters (or for that matter whether Abel had a wife and children unmentioned in t...
This chapter states that Adam had other sons and daughters after Seth, but does not give us their names. SETH: Lifespan: 912 years. Seth replaced his righteous older brother Abel, who was murdered by his oldest brother Cain in Genesis 4.
Jun 26, 2020 · After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died. Because there were so few people, the longevity of mankind was far longer than it is today.
Jan 6, 2023 · Seth was the third son of Adam and Eve, born after his brother Cain had killed Abel. When Seth was born, Eve said, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel” ( Genesis 4:26 ), indicating that having Seth filled the void left after that tragedy.
Aug 29, 2020 · 3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. Adam had other sons prior to Seth who were not said to be in his likeness and image. Genesis 4:4 NIV. 4 Adam [a] made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.
Scripture clearly says, "The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters." The text doesn't say how many, only that he had other sons and daughters. Aside from this direct statement that Adam had "other sons and daughters," we can infer this reality from the narrative.
