Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 05/07/2006 00:35, Shoshanna Walker wrote:
> I don't know how many hours were in that day.  They were created as 
> adults, by the way...
>
>   
How to you reconcile this one with the biblical text which tells us that 
Eve became pregnant and gave birth to Cain (WATTAHAR WITTELED - actually 
I think the misplaced hiriq rather than patah in the latter word is a 
printing error in BHS) (Genesis 4:1)? I agree that the text is not 
entirely conclusive whether this happened before or after the expulsion 
from Eden, but it does clearly seem to imply a natural birth rather than 
Cain being created as an adult.

It would also seem strange that there is no mention of Cain and Abel in 
Genesis 3 e.g. v.21 if they were around at the time and adults.

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