Adam and Eve had daughters as well as sons, and the old answer, Jewish and Christian alike, is that in the first generation brothers married their sisters. Genesis names three sons, Cain, Abel and Seth, and then adds that Adam “begat sons and daughters” (Genesis 5:4). The law against marrying a sister came much later, through Moses (Leviticus 18:9). Genesis never names the women the sons married, and it never says how many children there were. Later Jewish writers gave…

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