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               Deuteronomy 27:22.


               3.  What  does  the  first-century  A.D.  Judahite  historian  Josephus  plainly
               state?


               COMMENT: He states that there  were other  peoples living  at  the time --
               notice!


               "And when Cain had travelled over many countries, he, with his wife, built a
               city, named Nod, which is a place so called, and there he settled his abode;
               where also he had children. However, he did not accept of his punishment
               in order to amendment, but to increase his wickedness; for he only aimed
               to procure everything that  was for  his own bodily  pleasure, though it
               obliged him to be injurious to his neighbors. He augmented his house-
               hold substance with much wealth, by rapine and violence; he excited his
               acquaintance to procure  pleasures and  spoils by robbery,  and be-
               came a great leader of men into wicked courses. He also introduced a
               change in that way of simplicity wherein men lived before; and he was the
               author of measures and weights. And whereas they [mankind] lived inno-
               cently and generously while they knew nothing of such arts, he changed
               the  world  into  cunning  craftiness.  He  first  of  all  set  boundaries  about
               lands; he built [another] city, and fortified it with walls, and he compelled his
               family to come together to it; and called that city Enoch, after the name of
               his eldest son Enoch" (Antiquities of the Jews, Book I, Chapter II, 2).


               COMMENT: When Cain went out from the presence of YEHOVAH God, he
               dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden,  where Josephus clearly
               states he had “neighbors” (Genesis 4:16).

               4. So where did Cain get his wife from? Genesis 6:1-2.


               COMMENT: He must have married from the same source as the "sons of
               God" did in the verse above.


               5. What about Noah – did he get his wife from the same source? Genesis
               6:9.


               COMMENT: Noah, however, walked with YEHOVAH God and was “perfect
               in his generations”. In other words, Noah married within the Adamic line as
               YEHOVAH God intended.

               6.  Did  Esau,  on the other hand,  take  wives of the strangers?  Genesis
               26:34, 35.



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