Adam
According to Genesis, Adam (Hebrew אָדָם) was the first human being on the planet. The Lord made him in His own image and loved him even after he disobeyed Him. His wife was Eve.
Adam lived for 930 years.[1] The Bible mentions that Adam and Eve had two children called Cain and Abel. According to Jewish tradition they had 56 children. The Bible does not mention any specific number of children of Adam—only that he "had other sons and daughters"[2]—but does say that Adam and Eve did have another son named Seth, after he had lived for 130 years.[3]
Christians consider Adam and Eve to be the father and mother of the human race. As such they must have had daughters for Cain and Seth to marry (Abel died by an act of murder and is not recorded to have had any issue) so as to ensure that the human race was true to God's command to be fruitful and to multiply throughout the earth.[4] This was not bad or sinful because it was not until the time of Moses that the Bible records any prohibition on close relatives marrying. This is thought to be because it would take some time for mutations degrading the human genetic code from God's perfect creation to accumulate sufficiently to be a problem in such marriages.[5]
References
- ↑ Genesis 5:5 (NASB)
- ↑ Genesis 5:4 (NASB)
- ↑ Genesis 5:3 (NASB)
- ↑ Genesis 1:28 (NASB)
- ↑ "Cain's wife—who was she?", Chapter 8 of The Revised and Expanded Answers Book, (Master Books).
