The question of who lived longer, Adam or Eve, is extremely difficult to answer, since we don’t even know what the age difference was between them. However, some sources give us such information.

Be fruitful and multiply

The issue of chronology of the lives of the biblical Patriarchs is complex and largely controversial. This is primarily due to the fact that the Old Testament books do not give us any dates. According to the Bible, we know in which year from the Creation of the world we live, but we do not know exact date the birth of the first man, how much older was Adam than Eve (and was he older), when our first parents were expelled from the Garden of Eden and, finally, who died first, Adam or Eve?

Theologians claim that Adam and Eve saw the light as adults, fully formed and ready to reproduce. After all, it is said in the Pentateuch: “And God blessed them, and God said to them: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth” (Gen. . 1:27–28).

The Bible gives us some dates for the chronology of Adam's life. “Adam lived a hundred and thirty years and begat [a son] in his own likeness [and] in his image, and called his name Seth. The days of Adam after he begat Seth were eight hundred years, and he begat sons and daughters. All the days of Adam’s life were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died” (Gen. 5:3-5). But much less is known about Eve.

Eve's Fate

From the 2nd chapter of the Book of Genesis we know: “And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man; and when he fell asleep, he took one of his ribs and covered that place with flesh. And the Lord God created a wife from a rib taken from a man, and brought her to the man. And the man said, Behold, this is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she will be called woman, for she was taken from [her] husband” (Gen. 2:20–23).

But how old Adam was when Eve was created from his rib, how old Eve herself was, how many years on earth the wife of the first man was allotted, the Bible is silent. Indirectly, Eve’s lifespan may be indicated by the age at which Adam’s children were born. However, complexity arises already with the first-born of the ancestors of mankind. According to the Bible, Cain and Abel were born after the Fall and expulsion from Paradise - it was then that Adam knew Eve.

But Jewish commentators believe that the verb “knew” should be taken in the plusquaperfect. In other words, in their opinion, the conception occurred before the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. Perhaps immediately after the creation of our foremother from the rib of our forefather.

It is much easier with the third son of Adam and Eve - Seth. Based on the canonical text, we know that Seth was born when our forefather was 130 years old. And when Adam turned 800 years old, as indicated scripture, he gave birth to more “sons and daughters.” It is logical to assume that the mother of all Adam’s children was Eve, which means that she was still alive by the 800th anniversary of her husband.

Islamic traditions

What does the Koran say about the life of the first people? The Islamic tradition reports that after being expelled from Paradise, Adam descended to earth on the island of Ceylon, and Hawa (Eve) in the Arabian Jeddah. For 200 years they prayed to the Lord for forgiveness until they met in the valley of Arafat. Then Adam and Chava went to the territory of modern Syria, where they gave birth to numerous offspring.

According to legend, Chava gave birth 20 times, with the exception of last son twins were born. In total, the couple had 39 children, and the interval between births was two years. However, the number “two” may not correspond to our modern chronology. In some Islamic sources you can find information that Adam lived for 2000 years, and Chava outlived him by 40 years, according to others - by only a year.

According to Islamic traditions (Muhammad's companions mention this), the burial place of Hawa is known - Jeddah. The monument over her burial was destroyed in 1928 on the orders of Prince Faisal to prevent the spread of superstition. The grave itself was concreted over by the authorities Saudi Arabia in 1975, because pilgrims prayed on it, violating the regulations of the hajj.

Even if we assume that the real Eve is located in Jeddah, then in the foreseeable future archaeologists and scientists are unlikely to be able to get to the burial place.

And they died almost on the same day

The Old Testament apocrypha from the so-called “ Scrolls of the Dead sea”, which have come down to us in Arabic, Syrian, Ethiopian, Armenian and Slavic versions.

Thus, in the text called “The Book of Adam and Eve” it is reported that when Adam was 930 years old, he became seriously ill. At his request, Eve and Seth went to Eden to find a cure to relieve suffering. However, God refused to help them. Returning to Adam, they heard from him a story about a divine vision in which the Archangel Michael announced to Adam about his imminent death. Before he departed into another world, Adam guided Seth on the righteous path and asked him to keep the covenants of the Lord. Six days later, after Eve and Seth delivered Adam to the gates of Paradise, he rested.

According to the same apocrypha, six days after the death of Adam, Eve gathered all the sons and daughters (thirty brothers and thirty sisters of Seth) and said: “Listen to me, my children, and I will tell you what the Archangel Michael told us when I and your father sinned before God. Because of our sin, God will bring the wrath of his judgment upon our race, first by water, the second time by fire; With these two elements God will judge the entire human race.”

The text goes on to say that as soon as Eve had spoken, she stretched out her hands to heaven in prayer, “and knelt down, and while she worshiped God and gave thanks to him, she gave up the ghost. After that, all her children buried her and mourned loudly.”

What Science Says

What can science say about the age of the first people? Unfortunately, there is nothing about how long they lived. However, genetic scientists have been able to establish the approximate lifespan of mitochondrial Adam and Eve. This became possible due to the fact that the “evolutionary tree” of the male Y chromosome was restored.

After conducting long and painstaking research, geneticists were able to state that chromosomal Adam lived approximately 120-156 thousand years ago, and Eve - 99-148 thousand years ago. And although mitochondrial Adam and Eve have nothing to do with the biblical characters, in general, science confirms that the genetic ancestors of people now living on Earth existed almost simultaneously.

Much more complex is the attitude of science to the age of the biblical Patriarchs. According to the Bible, their lifespan was many hundreds of years. So, Adam's son Seth lived 912 years, grandson Enos - 905, great-grandson Cainan - 910. But the record holder was Enoch's son Methuselah, who lived to 969 years. It is no coincidence that the expression “Methuselah ages” exists. Before the Flood, judging by the Old Testament texts, middle age Patriarchs exceeded 900 years.

Gerontologists do not believe that such longevity was ever possible. Maximum resource ordinary person, in their opinion, 120-130 years. Some representatives of the scientific world explain this phenomenon by the fact that the “biblical year” is equal to a modern month, in which case if Adam’s age (930 years) is divided by 12 months, we get 77.5 years. Seems to match average duration life of a modern person.

However, there is a serious catch here. If we agree with the scientists and convert the age of Adam Seth’s birth into modern calculus, we will get 10 years and 8 months! But Cain and Abel were born even earlier. Then Abraham, who according to the Bible lived 175 years, was supposed to die at the age of 14.5 years.

According to another version, supported by theologians, before the Flood, man lived in more favorable climatic and biological conditions, which allowed him to reach such impressive age marks. Burdened with the sins of their forefathers, the generation born after Noah began to steadily lose their ability to live long lives.

Answer from Egor[master]
Dear Nastenka! I would like to note that NO ONE will give a complete and exhaustive answer to your question. These will be versions, guesses... fantasies and even nonsense. Another interesting thing is how many answers were received and even worthy people. But will life become better by satisfying simple curiosity? Better answer yourself - Who am I? And what is needed for happiness? With your potential, you can achieve anything. To start - a gift
Instructions
You were not provided with instructions for life at the moment of your birth. And if you received it, it might look like this:
1. You will receive a body. You may or may not like it, but it is the only thing that will definitely be at your disposal for the rest of your days.
2. You will have to study at a school called Life on Planet Earth. Every person and every event is your Universal Teacher.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Failures are an integral part of success. There are no victims - only students.
4. The lesson will be repeated in in a variety of forms until it is completely absorbed. If you don't learn the easy lessons, they will become harder. When you have mastered it, move on to the next lesson.
5. External problems are an accurate reflection of your internal state. If you change your inner world – outside world the same will change for you. Pain is the Universe's way of getting your attention.
6. You will know that the lesson has been learned when your behavior changes. Wisdom is achieved through practice. A little something is better than a lot of nothing. (A little of something is better than a lot of nothing)
7. There is no place better than “here”. “There” is no better than “here.” When your “there” becomes “here”, you will get another “there”, which will again seem better than “here”.
8. Others are just your reflection. You cannot love or hate what is in others if it does not reflect your own qualities.
9. Life makes the frame, but you paint the picture. If you do not take responsibility for painting a picture, then others will paint it for you.
10. You will get everything you want. You will subconsciously correctly determine how much energy to spend on what and what people to attract to you; therefore, the only thing the right way to determine what you want is to look at what you already have.
11. In determining “right” and “wrong”, morality is a bad help. Do the best you can.
12. All answers are in you. You know more than what is written in the books. All you have to do is look within, listen to yourself and trust yourself.
13. You will forget about all this.
14. You will remember this whenever you want.

Reply from Fenrir[guru]
Not at all) They never existed

Reply from Bodda[guru]
In our memory - somewhere under 10,000 years. And at the time of death - the average inhabitants of the Earth were.

Reply from Vadim Omelchenko[guru]
What kind of company is this? Apple export?

Reply from Dmitry Galaktionov[guru]
Adam lived 930 years and Eve 900 - it seems so, Adam was 5 meters tall, Eve was 4 meters tall

Reply from Max Crossman[guru]
The soul has no number of years. Time exists only for the body.

Reply from Bondu elf![guru]
they are zero years old
(this is fiction)

Reply from Aurika Balika[guru]
The years of Adam's life are 4026-3096 BC. The years of Eve's life are not written.

Reply from Anton Maximov[guru]
Adam lived 930 years.

Reply from LECTURER[guru]
The legend about Adam and Eve was written about 500 years ago, after the Gospel.

Reply from AGENT 007?[guru]
approximately Adam 930 and Eve 900

Reply from ****** * [guru]
Almost 1000 years old, celebrated yesterday
have fun for the glory of God

Reply from Yoer Yozha[guru]
According to biblical chronology, humanity is 6040 years old from the birth of Adam.

Reply from Vladimir Lipetsk[newbie]
They are about 6000 years old.

Reply from Valery Nikiyan[guru]
Now they are at the age of Jesus Christ, i.e. they are 33 years old

Reply from Ilona Molotova[guru]
Adam died at about 900 years of age. There seems to be no mention of Eva, but it is logical to assume that she died at the same age. This must be written in Genesis.

Reply from VERTUM[guru]
According to the Bible, Adam lived 930 years. But history is silent about Eve, her age. However, having applied logical thinking, it is quite possible to calculate the approximate age of Eve.
The holy book says that Eve gave birth to Seth when Adam was 130 years old. We subtract from 130 one year of gestation for Seth, 1.5-2 years of mourning for the death of Abel by Cain + 15 - 20 years minus (the approximate age of Cain and Abel). They were both approximately the same age (we take into account the time of cleansing after the birth of the first child) with a difference of 2, maximum 4 years. As a result, Adam was 130 - 1 - 2 - 20 = 107 years old at the birth of his first son.
Considering the time a girl matures at 13 years old (minimum period) in sexual relations, EVE WAS 94 years old at that time.
If Adam lived 930 years, then Eve most likely lived more than that, because by Nature women are more drawn to prolonging youth and beauty through diets, hunger strikes, and a more careful attitude to health.
By the way, according to medicine, pregnancy and childbirth rejuvenate a woman’s body, and if so, then I would not be surprised that Eve lived 1000 years, no less.
Eve (XX chromosome) was created from Adam’s rib (XY chromosome), which means that Adam’s gene for longevity was genetically passed on to her, and in a woman’s chromosome there are 1000 more genes than M, although a good half of them are in dormant mode, becoming partly activated during pregnancy time. Hence the effect of childbirth on J.
IT'S NOT JUST THAT THE BIBLE SAYS THAT A WIFE WILL SAVE HER HUSBAND.
In the Gospel of Philip (apocrypha): When Eve was in Adam, there was no death. After she separated (from him), death appeared. If she enters him again and he accepts her, there will be no more death.
Bonus, in order to understand the secret of LIVING WATER IN US - THE TEMPLE OF GOD, "TEMPLE.. ASOMAS, X and Y":
SAID IN THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS (APOCR.): Simon Peter said to them: Let Mary leave us, for women are not worthy of life. Jesus said: See, I will guide her to make her a man, so that she also may become a living spirit like you men. For every woman who becomes a man will enter the kingdom of heaven. ..Jesus saw babies sucking milk. He said to his disciples: These babies who suck milk are like those who enter the kingdom. They said to him: What if we are infants, will we enter the kingdom? Jesus said to them: When you make two one, and when you make inner side as the outer side, and the outer side as the inner side, and the upper side as the lower side, and when you make man and woman one, so that the man is not a man and the woman is not a woman, when you make eyes for an eye, and a hand for a hand, and a foot instead of a foot, an image instead of an image, then you will enter (the kingdom).

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Who was older - Eve or Adam? It is difficult to answer this question today, because there is no accurate data on this. However, some sources have some information. In general, in Old Testament there are no specific dates. Therefore, the age of the biblical patriarchs is always a subject of dispute. Yes, the Bible indicates the year from which our days are recorded. But dates such as the appearance of the first man or the death days of Adam and Eve cannot be found. Although the Bible is not a factual document. For example, theologians argue that Adam and Eve arose as sexually mature creatures. As it is written in the Pentateuch: “And God blessed them, and God said to them: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” In addition, about the life of Adam it is mentioned that he became a father at the age of 130 years. There is nothing like this in the text about Eve. But everyone knows that according to Scripture, it was produced from Adam’s rib. But how old Adam was at that time is unclear. Also, the Bible is silent on other chronological notes from the life of the legendary Eve. The ages of the biblical heroes are indirectly indicated by the descriptions of the birth of their children. According to the Bible, Cain and Abel were born after the Fall and expulsion from Paradise - it was then that Adam knew Eve. And Jewish interpreters believe that the conception occurred before the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. According to the canonical text, when Adam “turned” 800 years old, he “gave birth to sons and daughters.” It can be assumed that his children came from Eve, which means that by the 800th anniversary of Adam she was alive.

In the Muslim tradition, it is believed that after being expelled from paradise, Adam and Chava (Eve) asked the Lord for forgiveness for 200 years. They then met Arafat and went to the lands of modern Syria. There they acquired numerous offspring. In some Islamic texts there is information that Adam lived for 2000 years, and Chava outlived him by 40 years or one year. The text called "The Book of Adam and Eve" mentions that when Adam was 930 years old, he became seriously ill. Eve and Seth went to Eden for a cure, but God prevented them. Later, Adam will tell you that the Archangel Michael appeared to him in a vision and informed him of his imminent death. According to the text, this prediction came true.

What do scientific researchers report about the ages of biblical heroes? Geneticists stated that chromosomal Adam lived approximately 120-156 thousand years ago, and Eve - 99-148 thousand years ago. As for the biblical patriarchs, according to the Bible their lives lasted hundreds of years. Adam's son Seth lived 912 years, his grandson Enos lived 905 years, and his great-grandson Cainan lived 910 years. And Methuselah broke the record, reaching 969 years. The expression “Methuselah age” came from him.

Of course, it is impossible to imagine a reality where a person lives for 900 years. Average centenarians today reach 120-130 years. However, theologians argue that in biblical times the climate was more favorable for humans. And some believe that the Bible describes a completely different calendar, where the theological year was equal to the modern month.

Julia writes: Again, I read your answers and found We don’t know how old Adam was at the birth of Cain, but Seth was born when Adam was already one hundred and thirty years old, see 5:3,4. Adam was 130 years old from what time - from when was he created? Then how old was he when he was created? I mean in relation to normal human age. After all, if he needed a wife, then he had to be at least 16-18 years old. And if God created him just as a boy, then it turns out that within one day this Adam grew up so much? I hope you understand my question. Help me figure it out...

Greetings, Sister Julia!

When God created, He immediately made everything perfect and developed. That is, in the question “what comes first, the chicken or the egg?”, a believer can confidently answer that in the beginning there was a chicken, perfect, adult, capable of laying an egg. Adam and Eve were created as adults. On the sixth day of the week they were created, and on the same day they were married by the Creator as husband and wife.

By the way, in our country, eighteen years of age is considered the age of majority to start a family. In some countries, families are started as early as twelve years of age. And in biblical times, forty-year-old bachelors and virgins were just approaching their period of courtship and first love.

But let's return to Adam. He really didn't have a childhood. But he had more: He personally communicated with God and the angels!

Blessings!

Vasily Yunak