If it was only Adam and Eve and the Cain slew Able and went to Nod how did he find a wife there?

Question

see Book of Genesis In Bible

Answer 1

Often, apparent inconsistencies can be resolved if we just look at the context. Consider, for example, the often-raised problem about Cain’s wife. As is well known, Cain killed Abel; but after that, we read that Cain had a wife and children. (Genesis 4:17) If Adam and Eve had only two sons, where did Cain find his wife?

Where did Cain get his wife? Is there a logical Bible answer?

Yes, there is. It is pointed to in the very instructions given to Adam and Eve shortly after their creation, namely: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it.”—Gen. 1:28.

Obedience to this command would require that Adam and Eve have children. Then these children, in turn, would marry and bear children. This process of reproduction by succeeding generations would need to continue in order to fill the earth in harmony with God’s purpose.


The solution lies in the fact that Adam and Eve had more than two children. According to the context, they had a large family. At Genesis 5:3 we read that Adam became father to another son named Seth and then, in the following verse, we read: “He became father to sons and daughters.” (Genesis 5:4) So Cain could have married one of his sisters or even one of his nieces.

At that early stage of human history, when mankind was so close to perfection, such a marriage evidently did not pose the risks for the children of the union that it would today.

It is probable that, while yet alive, Abel had sisters; the record mentions the birth of daughters to his parents, but their names are not recorded. (Ge 5:1-4)

Cain went into banishment in “the land of Fugitiveness to the east of Eden,” taking with him his wife, an anonymous daughter of Adam and Eve. (Ge 4:16, 17; compare 5:4, also the much later example of Abraham’s marriage to his half sister Sarah, Ge 20:12.)

Answer 2

Well first lets remember Genesis is just a story, not historical fact. Remember how when you played telephone as a kid and you would say "I like puppies" by the time it gets to the third person it's become. "I wish I had a boat." So you can't take it literally.

But even if you did take it literally, no where in the Bible does it say God ONLY created Adam and Eve.

Answer 3

The bible just spoke about Adam, Eve, Cain and Able, but Adam and Eve had other children. They were to populate the world. It was socially acceptable to marry your sister back then, because they were populating the world.

Answer 4

Because He created man during the Creation before He created Adam and Eve, and abolished Cain to the land of Nod...where there were other people...

Has no one else paid attention to the 'let us make man in our own image' during Creation...and in a different chapter of Genesis, He creates Adam out of the dust and blew the breath of life into his nostrils???

Answer 5

He took his wife with him. Adam and Eve had more children. Adam lived to be about 800 years old. He fled so others wouldn't kill him. Who were the "others"? His brothers and sisters.

It was not bad at that time to take a brother or sister as a mate. That came later, as the copies of people became worse.

Take a page, photocopy it. Photocopy the copy. Take that copy and make a copy. Keep doing this and the page gets worse and worse. God created us nearly perfect. Then, people started creating people, making copies of themselves. The human race has been going downhill ever since, getting worse with each generation.

Answer 6

Good question, maybe because the bible is a work of fiction with big holes in the plot.

Its interesting that some people as saying " yeh well, there were other people but the bible just forgot to mention them" is a very lame excuse. Maybe there were aliens and the bible forgot to mention them as well. Or time travelers. Or maybe cloning.
See, anything is possible in fiction, eh

Answer 7

because there were other people there. cain went to nod(land of wandering)
that's where the nomads were. you see, adam and eve had a settled existance and so they looked down on people who moved from place to place as not being man. cain left one culture and joined another, that apparently was more tolerant than the one he left.

Answer 8

There were people living in the land of Nod and Cain knew it.These people wanted to kill Cain. Why? Because Abel was their brother.

Answer 9

Either Cain or Able had to have slept with Eve.. Remember at htis popint there was no offical religon or any concept of incest versus outside relationships so it was not consdiered wrong or taboo

Answer 10

Well of course....Adam and Eve had more children..and back then they lived to be hundreds of years old. The children mated. Then cousin. Relatives populated the earth.