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ONE-SIXTH of al l the time from his creation until now. Yes, there must
have been plent y of young women for wives for Cain, and Seth, and all
their many other brothers, as the hundreds of years dragged along!
Let ua also remember t hat it was not wrong to marry
or brother in the beginning. No physical harm wou l d result .
thousand years later -- 1n the days o:f Abraham --
a
man could
marry a half s i ster.
It
was not until the days of Moses that
brothers
to
marry their half sisters (Lev . 18:6,11) .
a s i ster
Over two
stUl
God forbade
Back in those antediluvian days, when people lived seven, eight,
and nine hundred years, they did not age as we do today . They were able
to conti nue bearing children, undoubtedly, for hundreds of years . After
the flood, due to human dissipation and · living contrary to God's revealed
right laws of living, the life span of man became shortened.
By
the time of Abraham, Sarah was considered too old to bear
children at
a~e
90, and
Abraham- thol.lght
it
i-mpossible for ·-btm to become
a father again at the age of 100 (see Gen. 17 : 17), Isaac was born as a
direct miracle, But back before the flood, and in the days of Adam, it
was different -- and would be today, had not men departed from the laws
of l iving revealed by God. May God help us to STUDY to learn those laws
and
start
living by
them today ,
LETTER
ANSWERING DEPARTMENT
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