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Adam and Eve. How many children did they have?
An Ancestry tree has the answer, each with a nice full-colour photo, so many that I lost count!
No sources quoted but you can follow the direct line all the way, although some of the dates are a little confused especially B.C..
ADAM BEN EDEN
100–1030
BIRTH 5 APRIL 100 • Garden of Eden
DEATH 5 APRIL 1030 • Olaha, Shinehah, East Eden
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EVE BINT eden
100–1030
BIRTH 5 APRIL 100 • Garden of Eden
DEATH 5 APR 1030 B.C. • Olaha, Shinhah, East Eden
alternative forenames:
Adam,Adam, "Red Man of Eden", "Hazrat Adam", "Adão", "Esimene Inimene", "Atum"
BIRTH 3760 B.C. • Garden of Eden
DEATH 2830 B.C. • Olaha (Shinehah) (Grzech) Place of Burial: Hebron, Israel
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"Eva", "Chava", "Hawa", "Mother of all Living", "Khawa", "Lady of Life", "Eve", "חוה", "حواء", "First Woman", "Tefnut", "Nin -
BIRTH 4004 B.C. • Garden of Eden
DEATH Olaha, Shinehah
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There are a few of those about. I have to at least admire the amount of work that went into tracing a tree from modern day back to Eden even if it has to be nonsense (even if one counts the Bible as truth, good luck linking your family back to it!)
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;D
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Adam and Eve. How many children did they have?
An Ancestry tree has the answer, each with a nice full-colour photo, so many that I lost count!
I didn't realise photography had been invented as early as that! ;) That increases chances of finding photos of my earliest identified ancestors who were alive in 1690. ;) I recently found a Moses, born in 1700's, who married into one of those lines. He's the first and so far only Old Testament male name in my tree. His origin is so far unknown.
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Reminds me of the rhyme,
Adam and Eve and Pinchme, went down to the river to bathe,
Adam and Eve were drowned,
Who do you think was saved ?
As a child I thought pinchme was a real person ::)
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"I don't Adam & Eve it" ;D
There's a lot to be said about Lockdown! ::)
Annie
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They must have had one of each, go forth and multiply they were told, so they did. If they had not we would not be here today. ;D
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My late father had a theory.
If Adam and Eve were the first and only people alive on Earth and they had 2 sons. Where did the next generation come from :o :o
I will leave you wonderful researchers to make your own minds up ;) ;)
Dorrie
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There are a few of those about. I have to at least admire the amount of work that went into tracing a tree from modern day back to Eden even if it has to be nonsense (even if one counts the Bible as truth, good luck linking your family back to it!)
There is (or at least was) a tree with my grandpa on it that went back to God, via Jesus and had Adam and Eve on it. It involved my Grandpa being married to a woman in the US at the same time he was marrying my Gran in Scotland, a man fathering a child at 140, another having a child 20 years before he himself was born. One I found particularly impressive was a woman having a baby in the Virginian colonies, 6 weeks before she had a baby in France then having another baby in Virginia 8mon after that. Strong woman don't you think. I had to keep looking at it even though I felt guilty. It also had Jesus married to Mary (the virgin) sic so the Bible wasn't even right. was impressive for all the wrong reasons
added oh yes and someone being born in the USA in 1200s
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My late father had a theory.
If Adam and Eve were the first and only people alive on Earth and they had 2 sons. Where did the next generation come from :o :o
I will leave you wonderful researchers to make your own minds up ;) ;)
Dorrie
Dorrie,
My Father asked me the same question when I was small, I didn't have the answer, and neither did he....I thought there were 3 sons though, Cain, Abel & Seth...but like the bible, I can't prove it ;D ;D I think that's when my doubts kicked in about the bible stories I had heard that didn't add up. He said "Grimm's Fairy Tales" is a good read! ;D ;D
Carol
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I had someone right here on RootsChat connect me back to Noah. Unfortunately, though, there is an inconvenient illegitimate birth in my tree in 1885 and, although I think I know who the parents were, I can't be certain so the chain is broken at that point. It would have been nice to trace back to the first wildlife management scientist but, so it goes.
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Ooops Carol I forgot about Seth - silly me ;D
Like all stories it has to be taken with a pinch of salt.
Loved Grimm's Fairy Tales and The Water Babies.
Dorrie
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Me too, My Mother was a lapsed Roman Catholic and my Father was an Agnostic, It took me years to pluck up the courage to admit I was a non-believer. My Father later would say that Religion was the cause of all wars.
Carol
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Me too, My Mother was a lapsed Roman Catholic and my Father was an Agnostic, It took me years to pluck up the courage to admit I was a non-believer. My Father later would say that Religion was the cause of all wars.
Carol
I used to attend Sunday School and C of E services during my teen years, and then I thought - Religion is the most evil invention of man - divide and rule. :-X I haven't found anything to change that impression, made in the 1950's, so I didn't marry in church nor was my daughter christened. :-X :-X
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There is (or at least was) a tree with my grandpa on it that went back to God, via Jesus and had Adam and Eve on it.
I had to keep looking at it even though I felt guilty.
I was the same about one which allegedly meant I was so many (can't remember how many) degrees connected to the present Queen. Some old royal genealogies show descent from Adam. Didn't take me long to spot an error, a case of mistaken identity, 200 years ago.
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"to admit I was a non-believer"
I was born an atheist and have never changed despite a tree chock full of clergymen and missionaries.
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Ooops Carol I forgot about Seth - silly me ;D
Like all stories it has to be taken with a pinch of salt.
Loved Grimm's Fairy Tales and The Water Babies.
Dorrie
Pinch of salt ,could that be a bit from the pillar of salt Lot’s wife ,thingummy was turned unto for looking back at Sodom?
Viktoria.
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I had a family member who went to Africa in the 1820's as a Missionary - there were many others there at the same time - all trying to "convert" African tribes to another religion, because "my lot is better than your lot".
Oops, sorry, diverting the thread :) :-X
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I was born an atheist
I can't remember anything before I was 3 but I can state with confidence that I wasn't having thoughts about theology when I was born. Coping with this confusing world was enough for my little brain to be getting on with. You must have been a very advanced baby. :)
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Where did the next generation come from :o :o
Genesis 5:4 "After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters."
That sounds plenty to me... if they weren't interested in their own family history they could even be blithely unaware that everyone else in the bar was their sibling!
I hear from creationists that there weren't any mutations yet so it was all fine and the word "ick" was not discovered until 3000 BC
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ADAM BEN EDEN
100–1030
BIRTH 5 APRIL 100 • Garden of Eden
DEATH 5 APRIL 1030 • Olaha, Shinehah, East Eden
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EVE BINT eden
100–1030
BIRTH 5 APRIL 100 • Garden of Eden
I'm querying their dates of birth. I thought Adam was older than Eve.
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My young daughter, many moons ago, in the queue at the local supermarket asked in a loud voice "what was Adam & Eve's surname Mummy?".
Hushed silence whilst the rest of the queues waited for my answer.
Pheno
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What did you answer pheno ?
Id have said in past there werent many people so surnames werent really used
Either son of or the place. They came from or their job .
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I think I went into some rambling explanation of surnames not being commonly introduced until much later.
Must have worked cos she is now an avid genealogist.
Pheno
Not so easy with another queue question that was asked of me by daughter in a pushchair -
"Mummy why has that man not got any hair on his head?"
Most mortifying. Pheno
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My young daughter, many moons ago, in the queue at the local supermarket asked in a loud voice "what was Adam & Eve's surname Mummy?".
I asked my grandma if she'd met Adam and Eve when she was a little girl. I was surprised when she laughed and disappointed to learn that they were dead long before she was born. I was under the impression that the Garden of Eden was somewhere in my district. I also believed I lived near the North Pole. There was no atlas in my house then. 12 years later I passed (just) Geography O-Level.
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Must have worked cos she is now an avid genealogist.
That's all that matters! Congratulations ;D
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On a bus, with Mum.
I had never been a bridesmaid and felt deprived.
Sooo, I said loud enough for people to hear—- “ I was your bridesmaid ,wasn’t I Mummy”.
SMACK!
:'(
Ooooh she wozzard!
Viktoria.
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Flash bang wallop.................they were obviously able to take photos 'cos.......
"The same thing happened long ago
When man was in his prime
And what went on we only know
From the snaps he took at the time
When Adam and Eve in their birthday suit
Decided to get wed
As Adam was about to taste the fruit
The man with the camera said..................."
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Kids at school,
“ Adam and Eve and Pinchmewell,
Went down to the river to bathe ,
Adam and Eve were drowned ( drowneded ,by kids )
Who do you think was saved?
If you were daft enough to say Pinchmewell,well that’s what they did to you,
pinch you well ,very hard!
Viktoria.