After the flood Noah's family multiplied and started to settle. [ GEN 8 ]
God's intentions were to repopulate the earth. "Bring out with every kind of
living creature that is with you --- the bird, the animals, and all the
creatures that move along the ground -- so that they can multiply on the
earth and be fruitful and in number upon it." [ GEN 8:17 ] "Then God
blessed Noah and his son, saying to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in
number and fill the earth.'" [ GEN 9:1 ]
However the land was good and they gathered in Shinar. [ GEN 11:2 ] Not
only did they not scatter as directed, they started to build a tower to the
heavens. [ GEN 11:4 ]
We are told at this point the people of the whole world spoke one language
and a common speech. [ GEN 11:1 ] It is also reasonable to assume they were
all of the same race as well.
The Lord confused their language [ GEN 11:7 ], which put a halt to their
building project, and caused them to scatter all over the earth [ GEN 11:8 ].
It is interesting to note that many root words between common languages today
are quite similar. Another amazing fact is that if you trace all the
different races and where they migrated from, all seem to have come from the
same point: where the first settling was after the flood!
One can fathom that the reading and writing of languages was altered along
with the verbal confusion. It is also probable that the DNA controlling race
was scattered. Just using 4 DNA-bits it is possible to account for the
different ethnic varieties in the world today.
In the begining there was Adam and Eve, but where did their children, such
as Caine get their wives from? Well, we know man was created perfect and
lived a very long time. ( Speculation is that the Tree of Life contained a
hormone which, among other things, prevented aging; some scientists claim
that such a thing is possible, but is impossible to identify the compound
necessary to do it. ) Caine most likely married a sister or a first-cusin.
While we know people were being born like puppies, there was most likely
about a 1,000 individuals on the planet. Statistically, about half would
be female, so there were slim pickings.
At the flood, the sons of Noah brought their wives with them, so there
was still an adaquate enough gean pool available.
As we know interbreeding causes serious problems, we need only look at
family-royalities who have imbeed to see the effects. This could be what
partically accounted for the degereration of man. God put a limit on man's
life span to 120 years. [ GEN 6:3 ] We also need to remember that some
men had more than one wife, this lessened the impact of genetic damage:
"And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but
not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife." [ GEN 20:12 ]
Eventually inter-family marriages were forbidden. Chapter 20 of Leviticus
discusses some really raunchy sexual examples of sins, yet here is one in
the list showing it forbidden to marry your sister: "If a man marries his
sister, the daughter of either of his father or his mother, and they have
sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off before the eyes
of their people. He has dishonored his sister and will be held responsible."
[ LEV 20:17 ]. Verse 20 covers his aunt. Verse 10 his mother. Verse 15
an animal. ..there's more, perhaps this will make you read what's in the
Bible and not just take quotations here for granted.