I’m not really sure how we would know all of those kinds of details. I mean, if you do believe in the Bible then there were two chances to populate the earth. If you’d like to say that there were more people in the beginning of the Bible, then they were still wiped out by the flood and the earth was repopulated by 8 people that spread out throughout the world.

The Bible does record that as clans would move out into other lands they would create their own language. It also records that at one time they did all speak the same language at the Tower of Babble. From there God inserted different languages into people and spread them out across the world.

To me this makes much more sense and being a Christian, the Bible is what I live by. I do enjoy looking into things and asking questions, but I believe the Garden of Eden to be our origin and I wouldn’t change the story of the Bible as to that.

Thanks for getting back to me!

Cain and Abel were the first two born, apparently not long after leaving Eden.
Probably not many, if any, other kids from the first couple before Cain and Abel.

There is overwhelming evidence that humans were spread–all over the earth–at this time.

I think that Cain just “married” one of the thousands of women running around at this time in the Middle East.

Of course the mark on his head was for the other inhabitants in his area. The ones the Bible does not mention, but were there nonetheless.

And I suppose the people who helped him build the city were of the same people who saw the mark on him.

I wonder what God was thinking about the ‘Indians’, living in North and South America at this time? There doesn’t seem to be anything about them in the Bible…but, we know they were here.

We also know that India,Australia,China,Europe,Asia, and Japan were occupied and thriving, making pottery, tools, buildings, etc.

We also know they had languages. Do you think they all spoke the same language.

I’ve heard from old Jewish midrash that Adam and Eve lived in a cave that was called “The Cave of Treasures”

I sorry for the lateness of reply. For some reason I didn’t get a pingback when you answered my first reply.

Those are some really good questions that I wondered about too. Here’s the answers I came to find:

1. Who were these people that Cain was afraid would harm him?

Adam lived to be 930 before he died which gave him a lot of time to make some babies. And since this is the beginning of time we see that one of the huge ideas of living is to have lots of kids. Adam and Eve are supposed to start populating the earth, so they do. So we start seeing more and more babies every year or so. Then their children have babies probably starting at fairly early ages as was the custom back then. So we’ve got people reproducing at a very active pace and populating the earth.

2. Who helped him build a city?

Cain’s family is probably the people who helped him build his city, Enoch. He had at least one baby before he built it and it probably grew over time as his children started populating it and marrying and populating again and what not.

3. Where did his wife come from?

I’m not sure how old Adam and Eve were when they had Cain and Abel, but we do know that Adam had his son Seth when he was 130 years old and Cain and Abel were before that time. Also, remember that people often lived between 800 and 900 years back then, giving them lots of time look for a mate. Now we don’t read of any women who were born around this time because women aren’t really recorded in genealogies in the Bible. But we do know that “after the birth of Seth, Adam lived another 800 years, and he had other sons and daughters.” (Genesis 5:3). So most likely Cain married a sister or a niece, which wasn’t looked down upon at the time because that’s how life had to start and it was expected to be that way. Also, genetics were pure at the start so marrying inside families didn’t cause defects or anything.

4. Where, and in what, did Adam and Eve live after the Garden?

I’m not exactly sure as to where they lived after, but God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and Eve and sent “them out of the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.” (Genesis 3:23) Here is a description God have them of the land after they ate from the Tree:

“Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it. It will grow thorns and thistles for you though you will eat of its grains. By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust and to dust you will return.”
Genesis 3:17-19

If you put anyone in survival mode the typical reaction is to give your all to live, so Adam and Eve would probably have picked up some skills on farming and figuring out how to live.

Great questions Bill. I hope was able to clear some things up.