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Jubilees adds that Adam and Eve had nine children after Seth, a detail absent from Genesis but similar to Pseudo-Philo, where Adam and Eve had twelve sons and eight daughters. Both build on the Genesis story to fill in narrative gaps.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Jubilees 4:10
Pseudepigrapha, Hebrew Bible Expansions
9 And Cain took Âwân his sister to be his wife and she bore him Enoch at the close of the fourth jubilee [190-196]. And in the first year of the first week of the fifth jubilee, [197] houses were built on the earth, and Cain built a city, and named it after his son Enoch. 10 And Adam knew Eve his wife and she bore nine more sons. 11 And in the fifth week of the fifth jubilee [225-31] Seth took Azûrâ his sister to be his wife, and in the fourth (year of the sixth week) [235] she bore him Enosh.
Date: 170–125 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
Pseudo Philo, Biblical Antiquities 1:2
Classical
1 The beginning of the world. Adam fathered three sons and one daughter: Cain, Noaba, Abel, and Seth. 2 After he fathered Seth, Adam lived 700 years and fathered 12 sons and 8 daughters. 3 These are the names of the sons: Eliseel, Suris, Elamiel, Brabal, Naat, Zarama, Zasam, Maathal, and Anath. 4 These are his daughters: Phua, Iectas, Arebica, Sifa, Tecia, Saba, Asin.
Date: 1–100 CE (based on scholarly estimates)
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"... Jubilees 4:10 ... Eve subsequently gave birth to nine more children: This is not mentioned in Genesis, but Adam and Eve’s additional children do figure elsewhere in Second Temple writings: according to Pseudo-Philo’s Biblical Antiquities 1:2, they had “twelve sons and eight daughters” after the birth of Seth ..."
James L. Kugel, A Walk through Jubilees: Studies in the Book of Jubilees and the World of Its Creation (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 46.
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