But does that include Adam and Eve and Cain?

That first man’s name was Adam and means “From the Ground.”

His wife’s name was Eve and means “Living,” because she came to be the mother of all other human creatures.

The marriage of Adam and Eve in Eden was a perfect one because it was performed by Jehovah God, all of whose activities are perfect, all of whose ways are justice. (Deut. 32:4, NW)

 7. By keeping Paradise a sanctuary, what would it be possible for Adam and Eve to do, and what special command was it possible for them to break, and with what penalty?

⁷ By keeping the Paradise of Eden a holy place or sanctuary it would be possible for Adam and Eve to live in it with their children forever.

Through woman we all got our fleshly bodies from the first man, Adam.

His wife Eve, the first woman, was flesh of the first man’s flesh and bone of his bones.

Adam and Eve never expected to see their offspring “groaning together and being in pain together” due to the physical, moral and social condition in which we find ourselves today.

This is the right heavenly pattern for all human marriages, beginning with that of Adam and Eve in the earthly paradise.—Gal. 4:26-28.

For an initial illustration let us take the very first instance, that of the first human pair, Adam and Eve.

God issued to the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, no commission to set up man’s rule over humankind.

Why did Adam make this statement about the first woman that he had ever seen?

Later, he called her Eve, meaning “Living One,” as she would become “the mother of everyone living.”​—Gen. 3:20.

Adam and Eve were perfect too, yet they made one of the most serious mistakes ever committed.

Nor did Satan disclose what was in his heart and, as in the case of Job, ask the Supreme Ruler Jehovah to remove his protection from around Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

After the creation of the first human souls on earth, Adam and Eve, all other human souls have been born.

¹³ An exceedingly valuable gift was in store for Adam if he had proved worthy.

Jehovah God had placed Adam and Eve in a vast estate in the eastern part of a section of the earth called Eden.

Our perfectly created first parents Adam and Eve were destined to live forever on a paradise earth as joyous courtiers of the Supreme Sovereign.