Origin of the Human Races

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God's first command to humans was to "be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth." Although humans did multiply, they failed to fill the earth as commanded.¹ Instead, the original humans filled the earth with violence and murder. Things became so bad that God destroyed all but eight humans through the flood.²

References

1. And God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." (Genesis 1:28)

2. See Genesis 6-9.