Nod (land of)

76:2.9And so Cain de­parted for the land of Nod, east of the sec­ond Eden. He be­came a great leader among one group of his fa­ther’s peo­ple and did, to a cer­tain de­gree, ful­fill the pre­dic­tions of Ser­a­p­ata­tia, for he did pro­mote peace be­tween this di­vi­sion of the Nod­ites and the Adamites through­out his life­time. Cain mar­ried Re­mona, his dis­tant cousin, and their first son, Enoch, be­came the head of the Elamite Nod­ites. And for hun­dreds of years the Elamites and the Adamites con­tin­ued to be at peace.

74:8.8In his early teach­ings, Moses very wisely did not at­tempt to go back of Adam’s time, and since Moses was the su­preme teacher of the He­brews, the sto­ries of Adam be­came in­ti­mately as­so­ci­ated with those of cre­ation. That the ear­lier tra­di­tions rec­og­nized pre-Adamic civ­i­liza­tion is clearly shown by the fact that later ed­i­tors, in­tend­ing to erad­i­cate all ref­er­ence to hu­man af­fairs be­fore Adam’s time, ne­glected to re­move the tell­tale ref­er­ence to Cain’s em­i­gra­tion to the “land of Nod,” where he took him­self a wife.

148:4.7“You are con­fused, Thomas, by the doc­trines of the Greeks and the er­rors of the Per­sians. You do not un­der­stand the re­la­tion­ships of evil and sin be­cause you view man­kind as be­gin­ning on earth with a per­fect Adam and rapidly de­gen­er­at­ing, through sin, to man’s pres­ent de­plorable es­tate. But why do you refuse to com­pre­hend the mean­ing of the rec­ord which dis­closes how Cain, the son of Adam, went over into the land of Nod and there got him­self a wife? And why do you refuse to in­ter­pret the mean­ing of the rec­ord which por­trays the sons of God find­ing wives for them­selves among the daugh­ters of men?

67:4.2The sixty mem­bers of the plan­e­tary staff who went into re­bel­lion chose Nod as their leader. They worked whole­heart­edly for the rebel Prince but soon dis­cov­ered that they were de­prived of the sus­te­nance of the sys­tem life cir­cuits. They awak­ened to the fact that they had been de­graded to the sta­tus of mor­tal be­ings. They were in­deed super­hu­man but, at the same time, ma­te­rial and mor­tal. In an ef­fort to in­crease their num­bers, Dali­gas­tia or­dered im­me­di­ate re­sort to sex­ual re­pro­duc­tion, know­ing full well that the orig­i­nal sixty and their forty-four mod­i­fied An­don­ite as­so­ciates were doomed to suf­fer ex­tinc­tion by death, sooner or later. Af­ter the fall of Dala­ma­tia the dis­loyal staff mi­grated to the north and the east. Their de­scen­dants were long known as the Nod­ites, and their dwell­ing place as “the land of Nod.”

77:4.5Af­ter the es­tab­lish­ment of the sec­ond gar­den it was cus­tom­ary to al­lude to this near-by Nod­ite set­tle­ment as “the land of Nod”; and dur­ing the long pe­riod of rel­a­tive peace be­tween this Nod­ite group and the Adamites, the two races were greatly blended, for it be­came more and more the cus­tom for the Sons of God (the Adamites) to in­ter­marry with the daugh­ters of men (the Nod­ites).