How many kids did Adam and Eve have?

The book of Genesis mentions three of Adam and Eve's children: Cain, Abel and Seth. But geneticists, by tracing the DNA patterns found in people throughout the world, have now identified lineages descended from 10 sons of a genetic Adam and 18 daughters of Eve.
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How many children did Adam and Eve give birth to before he died?

Eve eventually bore 20 sets of twins, and Adam had 40,000 offspring before he died.
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Did Adam and Eve have a third child?

Seth, in Judaism, Christianity, Mandaeism, Sethianism, and Islam, was the third son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, their only other child mentioned by name in the Hebrew Bible.
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Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?

The navel is a scar left by the umbilical cord which attatches a foetus to the placenta. If Adam and Eve were created as adults by God they would not have had an umbilical cord.
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Who are the twins in the Bible?

Isaac and Rebekah had their twin sons Esau and Jacob 20 years after they were married. The Bible says he was 100 years old and when "his eyes were too dim to see", he called his eldest son, Esau, to give him his last blessing recognising his birthright.
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How many children did Adam and Eve have in the Bible?



What happened to Lilith?

The three angels found Lilith in a cave bearing children but Lilith refused to come back to the garden. The angels told her they would kill 100 of her children every day for her disobedience. In revenge, she is said to rob children of life and is responsible for the deaths of still-born infants and crib deaths (SIDS).
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How long did Adam and Eve live?

According to Jewish tradition, Adam and Eve had 56 children. This was possible, in part, because Adam lived to be 930 years old. Some scholars believe that the length of the life spans of the people of this time was due to a vapor canopy in the atmosphere.
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Is incest a sin in the Bible?

Incest in the Bible refers to sexual relations between certain close kinship relationships which are prohibited by the Hebrew Bible. These prohibitions are found predominantly in Leviticus 18:7–18 and 20:11–21, but also in Deuteronomy.
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How is Noah related to Adam?

Noah appears in Genesis 5:29 as the son of Lamech and ninth in descent from Adam. In the story of the Deluge (Genesis 6:11–9:19), he is represented as the patriarch who, because of his blameless piety, was chosen by God to perpetuate the human race after his wicked contemporaries had perished in the Flood.
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Who was Cain wife?

According to various Abrahamic traditions, Awan (also Avan or Aven, from Hebrew אָוֶן aven "vice", "iniquity", "potency") was the wife and sister of Cain and the daughter of Adam and Eve.
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Is Adam and Eve in heaven?

Adam and Eve were sinners, as are each one of us. If Adam and Eve are excluded from heaven, so are every one of us. But every one of us depends on God's grace to save us.
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How many children does Eve have?

Eve married the British entrepreneur in June 2014 after four years of dating, and she is a stepmom to Cooper's four teenage children — Lotus, 19, Jagger, 17, Cash, 15, and Mini, 13 — from his previous marriage.
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Where is the Garden of Eden located?

The location of Eden is described in the Book of Genesis as the source of four tributaries. Various suggestions have been made for its location: at the head of the Persian Gulf, in southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq) where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers run into the sea; and in Armenia.
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What language did Adam and Eve speak?

The Adamic language, according to Jewish tradition (as recorded in the midrashim) and some Christians, is the language spoken by Adam (and possibly Eve) in the Garden of Eden.
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Where are Adam and Eve buried?

The cave of Machpelah, in the West Bank city of Hebron, is the burial place of the Matriarchs and Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah. According to Jewish mystical tradition, it's also the entrance to the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve are buried.
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How old is the oldest person in the Bible?

He had the longest lifespan of all those given in the Bible, dying at 969 years old. According to the Book of Genesis, Methuselah was the son of Enoch, the father of Lamech, and the grandfather of Noah. Elsewhere in the Bible, Methuselah is mentioned in genealogies in 1 Chronicles and the Gospel of Luke.
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Who is Adam first wife?

Lilith was the first wife of Adam according to Jewish folklore. This fills a gap in the two accounts of creation in Genesis.
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Who is Adam second wife?

In the Jewish book The Alphabet of Ben-Sira, Eve is Adam's "second wife", where Lilith is his first.
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What Zodiac is Lilith?

Now, Lilith doesn't actually have a ruling sign, but the twins note that some astrologers believe Lilith to be associated with Scorpio. After all, Scorpio is associated with all things dark and mysterious, including sex and death.
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Who had red hair in the Bible?

Obviously, we'll never know if Judas Iscariot, the Apostle who famously betrayed Jesus Christ in the Bible for 30 pieces of silver, was actually a redhead. But he is often portrayed in medieval paintings as having flaming hair and an equally crimson beard.
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Was Jacob a twin?

According to the Old Testament, Jacob was the younger twin brother of Esau, who was the ancestor of Edom and the Edomites. The two are representatives of two different grades of social order, Jacob being a pastoralist and Esau a nomadic hunter.
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Who were the first twins ever born?

In a sad yet profound discovery, skeletal remains of a pair of new-born twins from 30,000 years ago have been unearthed, making them the earliest known identical twins in history. The infant remains came from a grave in Austria from Gravettian site of Krems-Wachtberg. They belong to the Upper Palaeolithic era.
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What did Adam and Eve eat meat?

In the biblical story, Adam and Eve eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and are exiled from Eden.
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