Did Adam and Eve's children have relations with each other to propogate the human family?

[gcurry]

Adam and Eve were told to be fruitful and multiply. It would seem their children would have had to inter-marry to populate the earth. True or not? If not, please explain how it might have worked.

 

[Leonie_Ambrose]

gcurry,

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