![]() ![]() In a way these kinds of side issues are a red herring though. That was all merely recounting the text as it is with just the simplest interpretation with the least extra assumptions added. In other words, if one wants to speculate as your question does, then one speculation is just that it's a sequence of events, and things are nowhere coincident together, but all is in sequence.Įrgo, then of course in chapter 4 when Cain leaves for good and goes off to this 'land of Nod' which is some already existing group/tribe/place/or nation.he takes a wife there from the already-existing peoples. In that case, Adam and Eve are the first ever humans with souls: breathed in spirit, thus the forerunners of all of us here in the profound way. That would then mean a variety of humans came into existence in some sense (in chapter 1, just as the text says) before the special situation of the Garden in chapter 2. Simpler to read to just read it as it is written, more plainly, thus as a sequence, so that all in chapter 1 finished before anything in chapter 2. ![]() I never had a distraction to imagine extra ideas such as that notion some have that whatever happened in Genesis chapter 2 was during chapter 1 (sorta an odd idea in my own personal view), and it's interesting to consider here the question: why assume that? Something else is afoot - not detailed history, but more interesting things. While it seems somewhat trivial, I never had any concern about such a question when I first read these chapters very long ago, as it clearly isn't addressed in the text, which isn't at all about small details. ![]()
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