In the begining there was Adam and Eve, they had two sons, Cain & Abel. Cain killed Abel and then went forth and took himself a wife.
Where did she spring up from?
2006-07-06 08:52:39 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If God made other people why does it not mention them in the bible.
Did he marry one of his sisters?
Indeed did he have any sisters?
2006-07-06 08:58:06 · update #1
So that makes us, the children of an act of incest no.
2006-07-06 09:00:28 · update #2
This just gets better and better.
Where's Hank he will know.
2006-07-06 09:02:25 · update #3
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.)
2006-07-06 09:48:11 · answer #1 · answered by BJ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They had THREE sons: Cain, Abel, and Seth.
Except perhaps for cirque_de_lune, these people dont know what they are talking about. Adam and Eve had no daughters. Cain was expelled to be a wander, never having a home. Thus It was said that he was the father of the Arabs. The Nomads.
Seth being the only one who wasn't killed or expelled from Eden is the real progenitor. He eventually discovered a city in the Land of Nod named Enoch (a parallel with the man of the same name) and went on from there. The city possibly could have been founded by Lilith.
They have genealogies on the net you can find.
2006-07-06 15:55:18 · answer #2 · answered by Frompers 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve had many children, the bible named Cain and Abel because they were the perpetrator and victim of the first murder. It's also said that Adam had kids with Lillith, before she left him, but who knows? Regardless, Adam and Eve had numerous kids, and their kids had kids, etc. So basically Cain could have married a niece, cousin, sister, don't know, but that does explain why we humans are a bit messed up, huh?
2006-07-06 16:04:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was his sister. Abel and Cain were not the only children of Adam and Eve
2006-07-06 15:57:19 · answer #4 · answered by momie_2bee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was his sister. Abel and Cain were not the only children of Adam and Eve.
2006-07-06 15:55:46 · answer #5 · answered by Gorgeous 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More than likely she would be either one of his sisters or nieces. The Bible didn't say that he went away and find his wife in another land.
Genesis 4:16And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
17And Cain knew his wife;...
It implies that he had a wife before he went to Nod.
2006-07-06 16:06:40 · answer #6 · answered by Damian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to understand Adam lived over 900 years he had entire cites full of children, grandchildren and great grandchildren...same can be said of Caine and Seth during a mans lifetime he is capable of having thousands and thousands of children and grand children.
2006-07-06 16:00:48 · answer #7 · answered by djmantx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cains wife came from the land of Nod.Nod is believed by some to have been populated by the men and women in the first creation story(the 7 days) which weren't related and probably was the first interracial couple.
2006-07-06 16:02:49 · answer #8 · answered by bmfnw72 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From the land of Nod-If God made one man and woman what makes people think he could not have made many more like they were created! She could have sprung up from the earth!
2006-07-06 16:01:42 · answer #9 · answered by wancarol 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
adam and eve had loads and loads of children, they just weren't mentioned at that point. incest wasn't forbidden until much later.
2006-07-06 15:56:11 · answer #10 · answered by pittising 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋