where did Cain wife come from if Adam and Eve was the first people here?

Question

I would like to know where did Cains wife come from? It don't really explain it in Gen 4th chapter.

Answer 1

If you move your question into the Religion category, you may find you will get the correct answer you need.
This is the Genealogy category.

Answer 2

Adam and Eve lived for over 900 years and in that time, they had many more than the two sons who know most about. They also had daughters, and these women became the wives of their brothers.

That may sound disgusting, but the idea is that Adam and Eve were perfect. They were the original people and their only single fault was sin. Since they are closest to God's image, their perfection was able to transcend the effects of incest. They might has well have not been related at all. After all, in extremely technical terms, Adam and Eve were siblings (both the original children of God).

Even those who believe in evolution would agree that all people had the same source - either we evolved from the same species or were created by the same creator, or we came out of the same primordial ooze. If this is true, then we are all related in some way or another. Have you ever heard of the 6 degrees of seperation? It's the idea that every human is only 6 degrees (degrees=people) away from every other human. If we follow all of our individual connections, blood relations or not, the most adamant Muslim is only 6 degrees of seperation from the Pope of the Catholic Church.

Hope that explains things a bit.

Answer 3

I've wondered about this myself, but another question along those lines, would be:

When Cain killed Abel, why was he worried about the people in other lands killing him?
Hence the mark of Cain that God put on him.
Would you be worried about a family member killing you? Especially since they didn't have phones, so how would they have known?
The only answer I came up with, is that more than 100 years had passed since the first man and woman were made. Although the Bible doesn't mention it, it would probably be an even more difficult task to chronicle every single detail. God could have made the 2nd, 3rd, 4th man...etc. in all those years, and placed them in surrounding lands east of Eden, west of Eden and so forth. The were fruitful, multiplied, and those would be the other people.
When Cain was caste out of Eden for his crime, and after receiving his mark from God, he then settled in one of those surrounding lands. This is where he would have found his wife.

Answer 4

Scripture does not record every event or all the births of people. Some things that are not recorded in the Bible just remain a mystery. Below is not fact....only what we can assume (gosh I hate to do that)

The answer is found in three facts: 1) Scripture does not record the name of all of Adam and Eve's children. 2) There can be long periods of time elapse between the children mentioned in scripture. 3) Cain married his sister.
Not Every Birth Mentioned. Scripture does not always mention every child that is born to a husband and wife. Genesis 5:1-4 is a great example of this.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them Man in the day when they were created. When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth. Then the days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters. (NASB) Genesis 5:1-4

This is Adam's genealogy. Notice that the only son mentioned is Seth. Seth was born after Abel and Cain in Genesis 4:25. Abel and Cain are not even mentioned and the added comment, " . . . he had other sons and daughters" tells us that Adam had daughters. Scripture rarely ever mentions the daughters who were born. In fact, Seth was born when Adam was 130 years of age. That is enough time for many other children to have been born.
Long Life. If we assume that Adam and Eve gave birth to other sons and daughters (one per year starting at 20 years of age), who had sons and daughters and so on, there could have been at least ten thousand people by the time Adam was 130 years old.

In order to populate the earth, brothers and sisters had to marry each other. With a population in the thousands, marriages within the immediate family were not necessary. Further, the genetic problems associated with marriages within a family would take some time to develop. It was not until much later that God prohibited this type of marriage.

Answer 5

Cain supposed to marry Able twinsister, and Able to marry Cain
twinsister, they were born twins, the Holly Qur'an saith so.
but, Cain sees that not to his favour, so somehow the Plan didn't
fulfilled the criterion as an obedient Servant of the Mighty LORD.

So Adam had to passed-up his position as the First Servant of The Lord, and start raising his family Seriously, instead of being created so-magically ?

Answer 6

You are correct and it totally baffles people that you say that. you think like me. Moses wrote genesis which was well after the story of creation. It is also interesting to note Moses was raised in Egypt by Pharoh who believed himself the sun god and was married to his own sister (tradition of the day), so there is a bit of egyptian mythology blended in there to explain things. At least that is the data I gathered when I researched it. It is likely that "IF" Adam and Eve did exist, that they rere as modern man is today and the others are the extinct versions of man, but that is pure speculation at best since there is no real recorded history of that particular time. So, your educated guess is as good as anyone else's.

Answer 7

Cain's wife was very sweet but she was always late for everything. That is why Adam and Eve were first. Her name interestingly enough was "Sugar".

Answer 8

Cain got his wife from eBay.

Answer 9

It's never said, but it is implied that Cains wife was also his sister.

Answer 10

Reread Genesis carefully: There were other people outside the Garden.