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Can You Explain This? (Bible Scholars) by Nobody: 4:25pm On Jul 15, 2014
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The Bible says Adam and Eve were the fisrt two humans and bore Cain and Abel, after which cain slew Abel. It then says Cain went to live among the people in the land of Nod.
Where did the people in the land of Nod come from?

Re: Can You Explain This? (Bible Scholars) by Tallesty1(m): 4:47pm On Jul 15, 2014
You are using a wrong bible, the scripture didn't say that cain dwelth among the people of nod rather it says that “Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, ((and dwelt in the land of Nod)), on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch: and ((he built a city, and he called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch)).”. It might interest you to know that cain before he slew his brother, had married a wife, the both fled to nod, had a child and built a city. Scripture didn't say that they met the inhabitants of nod, they are the first inhabitants of nod.

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Re: Can You Explain This? (Bible Scholars) by Nobody: 5:46pm On Jul 15, 2014
Tallesty1: You are using a wrong bible, the scripture didn't say that cain dwelth among the people of nod rather it says that “Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, ((and dwelt in the land of Nod)), on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch: and ((he built a city, and he called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch)).”. It might interest you to know that cain before he slew his brother, had married a wife, the both fled to nod, had a child and built a city. Scripture didn't say that they met the inhabitants of nod, they are the first inhabitants of nod.

Where is Cain's wife from?
Who are those that will kill Cain after he was cursed?


International Version (NIV)

Cain and Abel
4 Adam[a] made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.[b] She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth[c] a man.” 2 Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.
Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. 3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. 4 And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
8 Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”[d] While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
9 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”
“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
10 The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. 11 Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”
13 Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
15 But the Lord said to him, “Not so[e]; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod,[f] east of Eden.
17 Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch. 18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.
19 Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.
Re: Can You Explain This? (Bible Scholars) by Tallesty1(m): 6:35pm On Jul 15, 2014
TheWholeTruth:
1: Where is Cain's wife from?
To understand this you need to be reminded that one of the missions of Adam and Eve was to "Increase, Multiply and fill the whole Earth". That said, You also need to know that the people mentioned in the bible are the focus of the story, the main characters.

Genesis 5:4 says—“And the days of Adam after he had fathered Seth were eight hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters.” This does not say when they were born. Many could have been born in the 130 years ( Genesis 5:3) before Seth was born. The bible didn't say that seth was the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th son, rather it states that Seth was born as a “replacement” for Abel. It could be possible that Adam and Eve had other children before Seth's birth so to answer your question. Cain married his sister or perhaps his niece or grandniece. A descendant of Adam

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TheWholeTruth: Who are those that will kill Cain after he was cursed?.
Genesis 5:4 tells us that Adam and Eve "begat sons and daughters." so cain Cain was afraid of his own brothers, sisters, nephews, and nieces, who were already born and would be capable of seeking revenge.

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Re: Can You Explain This? (Bible Scholars) by BabaGnoni: 9:07pm On Jul 15, 2014
TheWholeTruth:

The Bible says Adam and Eve were the fisrt two humans and bore Cain and Abel, after which cain slew Abel.
It then says Cain went to live among the people in the land of Nod.
Where did the people in the land of Nod come from?

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Tallesty1:

You are using a wrong bible,
the scripture didn't say that Cain dwelth among the people of nod rather it says that “Cain went out from the presence of the Lord,
((and dwelt in the land of Nod)), on the east of Eden.
And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch:
and ((he built a city, and he called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch)).”.

It might interest you to know that Cain before he slew his brother, had married a wife, the both fled to nod, had a child and built a city.

Scripture didn't say that they met the inhabitants of nod, they are the first inhabitants of nod.

With a smug or mischievous smile, he indeed misquoted the bible (i.e. was using a wrong bible)

In addition to endorsing 100% all Tallesty1 has written above

"Nod" (נוד) is the Hebrew root of the verb "to wander" (לנדוד)

The Land of Nod (Hebrew: eretz-Nod‎, ארץ נוד) as the noun and Moses implies is:
the land Cain arrived in living as a vagrant or nomad:
Cain was always on the move, constantly drifting, roaming, wandering, travelling etc
He lived the life of a vagabond, wandering from place to place without a home (i.e. total homelessness)
until when he built a city named after his son

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