Genesis 5:6-8 “And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos: And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.”
Seth’s age at the birth of Enos sets the timeframe for the wave of earth’s third generation. Adam was 235 years old at the time, and still having more children of his own. Seth’s first sons and daughters would have been the same age of some of Adam’s later sons and daughters, so there would potentially have been plenty of uncles and aunts marrying their nieces and nephews besides all the marriages between cousins.
The 807 years of Seth’s life after the birth of Enos amplifies the implications of the short addition: “and begat sons and daughters.” Even assuming that only a quarter of those 807 years were given to childbearing, that’s plenty of time to have a heap of kids! How many of Seth’s children remained faithful to God? Did any of them go to work as missionaries among the perverse children of Cain, or did fear keep them away?
Seth was already 800 years old when Adam died, which would have been his first indication of how much longer he might expect to live. “All the days of Seth” were 18 years less than Adam’s 930 years, and the first shortening of life’s day.
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