Roy Brown wrote:
>
> In message <[log in to unmask]>, Wesley Setree
> <[log in to unmask]> writes
>
> > if anyone wants to know the truth about life
> >and how it all got started just start reading Genesis chapter 1 verse 1.
>
> Well, I tried this, but I got terribly confused :-(
>
> I mean, there was just Adam and Eve at first - nobody else - and they
> had two children, Cain and Abel - both boys - and Cain slew Abel, so
> they were down to three humans in the world, total.
>
> And then Cain got banished, and went to live in the land of Nod, where
> he took 'a wife'. Wha? Where'd this wife come from?

Gen 5:4
And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred
years: and he begat sons and daughters.

So, Adam and Eve had more than just 2 sons. Seth is son #3 from whom we
all decend. The rest either died before or in the flood. There is not an
account of where Noah's wife nor son's wives decended so they may have
come from 'other than Seth'. Noah did decend from Seth.

This would mean that Seth would have had children with one (or more?) of
his sisters (hopefully not his mother, not impossible but I find it very
improbably). Later, in the Mosaic Law we are told that incest is not a
good thing (perhaps God knows the gene pool is now not quite so clean).
Incest is defined as (parents, uncles, aunts, siblings and first
cousins).
So, now, you can go ahead and marry your second cousin if you like. ;-)