Adam and Eve were the first people. They had two sons. Where did the son's wives come from? Sisters Maybe?

Answer 1

Where did Cain get his wife? Adam “became father to sons and daughters.” (Genesis 5:4) So Cain took one of his sisters or perhaps one of his nieces as a wife. Later, God’s Law to the Israelites did not permit the marriage of a fleshly brother and sister.—Leviticus 18:9.

One might think that after the murder of Abel, only his guilty brother Cain and their parents, Adam and Eve, were left on the earth. However, Adam and Eve had a large family. According to Genesis 5:3, 4, Adam had a son named Seth. The account adds: “The days of Adam after his fathering Seth came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters.” So Cain married his sister or perhaps one of his nieces. Since mankind was then so close to human perfection, such a marriage evidently did not pose the health risks that may imperil the offspring of such a union today.

Adam was cast out of Eden into an unsubdued earth that was cursed to produce thorns and thistles, there to sweat out an existence, harvesting the bitter fruits of his sin. Outside the garden, awaiting death, Adam fathered sons and daughters, the names of only three being preserved—Cain, Abel, and Seth. To all of his children Adam passed on hereditary sin and death, since he himself was sinful.—Ge 3:23; 4:1, 2, 25.

Consider, for example, the often-raised problem about Cain’s wife. At Genesis 4:1, 2 we read: “In time [Eve] gave birth to Cain and said: ‘I have produced a man with the aid of Jehovah.’ Later she again gave birth, to his brother Abel.” 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?

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.


Seth may not have been the third child of Adam and Eve. According to Genesis 5:4, Adam had “sons and daughters,” some of whom may have been born before Seth. Seth is worthy of note because Noah, and through him the present-day race of mankind, descended from him, not from the murderous Cain. At the age of 105 years Seth became father to Enosh. Seth died at the age of 912 years.

Answer 2

Ah, Cain's wife. The answer is obvious. Genesis 5:4 says that Adam and Eve had other children. This inevitably meant that there were women. Cain got his wife, who was his sister. As for the Law of Moses and its condemnation of close-family relationships, that was given thousands of years later. And besides, if you don't marry your relation, you're not marrying a human! And if you think that Cain's child would have birth defects, you have to remember that the human race was brand new, and had no mutations. But mutations are what cause birth defects. So, there wouldn't be bad mutations that usually occur with close-family relations.

Answer 3

The Adam and Eve story is another plagiarized one passed off as 'gospel'.

Read up on the pararells detailing the Anannaki on the Sumerian tablets, set in stone ; ) The early bible writers changed a few major details of the legend to fit their particular version of god.

Answer 4

"Many other readers wrote in baffled about Cain's wife. Who is she? There's no mention of any daughters of Adam and Eve (who would be Cain's sisters, anyway). So, where did Mrs. Cain come from? Anyone have a good answer? "*

One of the great mysteries of life.

Answer 5

They were sisters. It doesn't mention them as children of Adam and Eve because that fact really isn't necissary to know.

Answer 6

more than likely. incest has been around on this planet longer than us humans have.

the only reason for why i can think people believe incest is a bad thing is because the bible taught everyone that the anti-christ will be born of incest.

and if it wasn't there sisters that they had relationships with then it must have been eve who had there children.

Answer 7

I believe that they married their sisters. i think that you find a more complete answer when you study other religions and their beliefs about how it all started.