Questions & Answers On Hebrews, Part 3 Questions 65 (COD Page 303)

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.

576 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.”

577 And someone said, “Well, who was Cain’s wife?”

578 Oh, I’d little joke with it or something, I’d say, “Oh, that was his mother-in-law’s daughter,” or something like that, you know, or-or “She was Mrs. Cain.” But that don’t answer the question. There’s...

579 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?

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.”

613 Now Second Peter 2:4. All right, sir, here we are:

William Marrion Branham
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