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Everyone makes incest jokes about Adam and Eve and their children but they never mention that there was another woman named Lilith (Adam's first wife) who would have added variance to the gene pool. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Eve had two sons. Cain found a wife "somewhere". Cain was also marked so no one would kill him, but the three other people known to exist were his parents and dead brother.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Cain found a wife in the Land of Nod. It's never explained where those people came from.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Genesis 5:4. Eve had three named sons (Cain, Abel and Seth), but also other sons and daughters. That would be where Cain found his wife.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

But he was cursed and went East, presumably to another tribe? Need to read Genisis again.

LOL, the two creation myths confused me as well. That's another interesting tale to take apart.