<TITLE>04. Par -</TITLE>L-303-Q-65 Now, as I have said many times, that these--these here are--are the best of my opinion of them, and then sometimes it raises a little discussion. The first one here, I see it's something that I've said before, that it's handed back again. I won't--want to read it now, if you will.
65. When Adam and Eve had their children in Eden, was there other people on earth at this time? In Genesis the 5th chapter and the 16th verse, Cain dwelt in the land of Nod and knew his wife.
Now, that's a--a wonderful question. Now, we are taught in the Bible... And many times these... Sometimes we have carelessly... I used to put on a little slip of paper and say, "Ask... Answer any Bible question."
And someone said, "Well, who was Cain's wife?"
Oh, I'd little joke with it or something, I'd say, "Oh, that was his mother-in-law's daughter," something like that, you know, or--or, "She was Mrs. Cain." But that don't answer the question. There's...
There Cain had a wife, because the Bible said he did. And if Cain had a wife, he had to get her somewhere. And this would line right into it here.
Was there other people on the earth when Adam and Eve had their children in the garden of Eden?

L-303-580 Now, if you notice, in the Bible it's very seldom ever recorded about a woman being born. It's always the man child is the one that they record in the Bible, not the woman. Seldom is it ever mentioned about the birth of a girl baby in the Bible. Or, frankly, I don't know as I can recall one right straight off now in mind, where it ever recorded the birth of a baby; said, "They begot sons and daughters."
Now, the Bible only gives record of three children being born to Adam and Eve, and that was Cain, Abel, and Seth. Now, if all three of those being men, if there wasn't any females borned, and then when the only female, Eve, died, the human race would've ceased to exist right then, because there'd been no way for them to--to have any--the human race to have furthered, because there would've been no females left. Eve would've been the only one. But you see, they don't record the--the births of girl babies in the Bible; so therefore, they had to have girls the same as boys.

L-304-582 Now, the old writer, one of the most ancient writers we got, Josephus, claims they had seventy children, and Adam and Eve; one of the oldest writers: seventy children, and they were both sons and daughters.
Now, if... And then if Cain went to the land of Nod... Now, if you notice, the writer was very, very brilliant writing here. Did you notice how he quoted it?
In Eden, when they had their children in Eden... Now, not in the garden of Eden, the writer knew that. Ever who wrote the note here, said: When Adam and Eve had their children in Eden, not in the garden of Eden, because they'd been driven out of the garden of Eden. But they were still in Eden, and the garden of Eden laid east in Eden. But Eden was like a county or--or what--or a state, and then Nod was another state or county next to it.

L-304-585 Now, the only person that Cain could've had, or married, would had to be his own sister. He had to. Because there's only one male and female that they could've come from (See?), and he had to marry his own sister. Now, that was legal in those days.
And Isaac married his own first blood cousin, Rebekah, ordained of God. Sarah was Abraham's sister, his blood sister, not by his mother, by his father. See, a blood sister that--that Abraham married, a different mother, but same father...
So you see, to marry in relation then, before the--the stream of blood was weakened in the human race, it was legal and all right. Now, it isn't. If you'd marry your sister today, and have children, they'd probably be... Well, they'd just be deformed and everything. Even down to a first and second cousin should never be married (See?), because the blood stream becoming low and running low.


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