Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-01-05
WHERE DID cain
FIND HIS WIFE?
\ pUZZLING BIBLICAL QUESTION
ANSWERED BY TULSAN.
0LIPHAHT EXPLAINS II
Says There Is Much More Doubt About
Modern Wives Than There
Was Then.

Where Cain found his wife has been
the inquiry of all ages. John A Oil
phant Of Tulsa gives the history OF
the early generations as follows:
Adam means man. Eve his wife,
was so named because she was the
mother Of all living. How long after
the first Adam and Eve Were created
until their sons Cain and Able were
born Is not given, and how long after
their birth until Cain slew Able Is
uncertain. Yet 1t must have been a
great many years as Able was the
herder Of sheep and Cain a farmer
and 1t must have taken a long time
after their birth to establish and
maintain a chosen occupation.
Through envy and Jealousy, Cain
killed his brother Able and for that
crime Cain was banished as a fugitive
and a vagabond and he wandered
over the earth, as the words land OF
Nod" signifies. How long he con-
tinued as such a wanderer Is not defi-
nitely given but he stopped when his
city. calling 1t Enoch.
There must have been a great many
people living at that time. to aid
In building the first city on earth.
Cain did not raise the people and then
build a city. but only his son Enoch.
The generations Of Enoch were Trad.
Mahujael. Mathusoel and Lemoch-nO
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children born is given to any, except
| the last named, Lamoch. who was
the first mormon and had two wives
to whom were born three sons. One
was the father OF the herds and dwelt
In tents, ono musician, playing on
the harp and organ and one. Tubal-
cane, the cunning worker In brass and
iron. When these events occurred
there were many millions on the earth
from the best history.
A the age OF 1870 years there We
born unto Adam his third son. Seth,
who was to take the place OF Able,
through whom the world was TO be
peopled az the chosen OF God Four
generations through Seth in his line Of
decendants. followed. named Enos.
Cainan. Mhalaleel and Jared, when
another Enoch was born. Then fol.
lows Mathuslah. Lenoch and Noah.
! Three OF these generations correspond
in name with three OF the names Of
! the generations OF Cain through
| Enoch. and the other name sounds al.
most the same. Jared and Trad. SO
that these four generations through
Enoch and Seth must have lived about
the same time, which was about six
hundred years after Seth, the chosen
one, was born. in order to have the
generations. II the generations Of
Enoch had occurred before those Of
his cousin Seth. then the four first
generations instead of the last four,
would have been named after their
lllustrious as well as first fathers and
their cousins.
In all the generations OF Adam,
en- the time Of birth, first son and
their first son. all but one. lived over
eight hundred years and to each alike
were born sons and daughters
At the time Cain ceased his wander.
ings and established a home, there
were many thousands Of women living
from whom he could have chosen a
wife The wife is not mentioned from
Adam down to Noah. except those Of
Lemoch. who was to be given the
distinction OF bornine the people Of
and for this world. After Noah was
born, the sons Of the chosen people
| looked upon the fair daughters Of