Who was Cains wife from the land of Nod?(Bible Study)?

Question

If Eve had a third child named Seth...meanwhile Cain knew his wife in the land of Nod...who was Cains wife if it wasn't Eve?

There has been many good responses to the question;However, we cannot assume anything and go by what is written. The Bible canot be changed or added to it. It is written and that is that. It will remain a mystery, but it would be easier to say the left out scriptures were that Eve had many children, but the Bible only speaks of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel and only generations of Eve that we can believe upon in Abraham, but Cains wife will always remain a mystery!

Answer 1

if you read the bible. it says that cain and able were the only kids adam and eve had.then cain killed able and took off to the land of nod where there was tons of people there .That's how he met his wife.Then after cain and able were gone,adam and eve had more kids.If you really think about it..There were more people in the world if there was villages already set in place ..seeing there was at least 2 or 3 generations by then.God made more people.Adam and eve may have been the first.. But it's obvious others were made in other areas for these villages to be made.

Answer 2

The Bible does not specifically say who Cain’s wife was. The only possible answer is that Cain's wife was his sister or niece or great-niece, etc. The Bible does not say how old Cain was when he killed Abel (Genesis 4:8). Since they were both farmers, they were likely both full-grown adults, possibly with families of their own. Adam and Eve surely had given birth to more children than just Cain and Abel at the time Abel was killed. They definitely had many more children later (Genesis 5:4). The fact that Cain was scared for his own life after he killed Abel (Genesis 4:14) indicates that there were likely many other children and perhaps even grandchildren of Adam and Eve already living at that time. Cain's wife (Genesis 4:17) was a daughter or granddaughter of Adam and Eve.

Since Adam and Eve were the first (and only) human beings, their children would have no other choice than to intermarry. God did not forbid inter-family marriage until much later when there were enough people to make intermarriage unnecessary (Leviticus 18:6-18). The reason that incest today often results in genetic abnormalities is that when two people of similar genetics (i.e., a brother and sister) have children together, there is a high risk of their recessive characteristics becoming dominant. When people from different families have children, it is highly unlikely that both parents will carry the same recessive traits. The human genetic code has become increasingly “polluted” over the centuries as genetic defects are multiplied, amplified, and passed down from generation to generation. Adam and Eve did not have any genetic defects, and that enabled them and the first few generations of their descendants to have a far greater quality of health than we do now. Adam and Eve’s children had few, if any, genetic defects. As a result, it was safe for them to intermarry.

Answer 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.)

Answer 4

Adam and Eve weren't the only people on the Earth at the time. There were more. Cain's wife was from somewhere else. He didn't marry his mother (we save that for other classic literature, i.e. Oedipus Rex). Two people alone cannot populate a world, and God knew that. Our story changes focus from the world to Adam and Eve upon their arrival. We don't see what God does with the rest of the world, or the other people he creates, but obviously he does. There can't be towns by Noah's time if there weren't more than one couple trying to make babies.

Archer Chris may also be right (my father, a minister, and I might disagree on this). Other stories in the bible are possibly untrue; possibly just parables meant to teach a lesson and not to be held as straight history (i.e. Job, Song of Solomon, and the book of Revelation, depending on whether or not you look out the window at night, hoping to not see a seven headed dragon). Adam and Eve could just be the short explanation for how God created the world (and evolution, contrary to popular belief, does not go against biblical teachings. Who are we to say how he did it when none of us were here to watch?).

Answer 5

This story was written thousands of years later by mosses in the wilderness and he received the information by word of mouth.
So only those that were notable were recored or remembered.
The women were never recorded. They were not children when Cain killed Able. But older men.
Adam and Eve were perfect and didn't practice birth control.
So probably had a baby every year. By this time there kids were having kids. And so on. The only ones recored were notable people. The bible is not in coronical order. Many things are told about as after a situation when actually it was before.
The twelve minor prophets were not in order of there time period.
That was even later when they were trying to make it accurate.
Lots of that account was left out. consider the circumstances and reason. Perfect people only had 2 sons in 100 years time?

Answer 6

Cain and the land of Nod

Some claim that the passage in Genesis 4:16–17 means that Cain went to the land of Nod and found a wife. Thus, they can conclude there must have been another race of people on the Earth, who were not descendants of Adam, who produced Cain’s wife.

‘And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch: and he built a city, and he called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.’

From what has been stated previously, it is clear that all humans, Cain’s wife included, are descendants of Adam. However, this passage does not say that Cain went to the land of Nod and found a wife. John Calvin, commenting on these verses, states:

‘From the context we may gather that Cain, before he slew his brother, had married a wife; otherwise Moses would now have related something respecting his marriage.’

Cain was married before he went to the land of Nod. He didn’t find a wife there, but ‘knew’ (had sexual relations with) his wife.

Answer 7

Hard to say. One of the offspring of the "sons of God and the daughters of Eve" or a distant relative who moved away.

There definately was a lot of harems and inbreeding in the Bible. Not every instance was documented.

There is NO conclusive statement that said GOD made a whole bunch of other people to populate the world of Adam and Eve.

Or maybe science is right and they are Cro Magnons.

Your choice.

More than likely the Sons of God took the daughters of Eve and moved them elsewhere to propagate.

So Caine's wife is a distanant relative.

There is no proof that making babies with your sister causes defects. It happens only when you keep doing it in house for 100 or more years.

Space things out and all you get, maybe, are blind, deaf, dumb, savants every now and then.

Answer 8

The bible does not record all of Adam and Eves children, it only records the story of the first three sons. There were many daughters born to them, but not recorded by name. There were also many more sons born to them after the birth of Seth.

It is generally accepted that Cain married one of his sisters. Although today we call it insest, it was not disallowed by GOD until the book of Leviticus, when there would have been enough people to populate the earth and no longer was it needed to marry your sister or half sister as in Abraham and Sarah.

The bible details some stories and others it only mentions main facts and leaves out details that we would like to know and understand, but ultimately, it records things we need to know about the history of the chosen people, and because Cain was not of the chosen line, his history is very scetchy, as is also true of the many other sons and daughters of Adam and Eve.

After Sara's death, the bible simply records that Abraham married another woman and had many children by her, also recorded he had many other concubines and they had children by him. No more detail is given because they were not of the line of the chosen ones to carry down GODS word.

It was never meant that these other descendants were not to follow God, just that they were not the chosen ones to inhabit the promised land and to safeguard the word of GOD.

Answer 9

simple. Adam and eve were the first people on earth. where the idea of otehr people came from is beyond me, because god wouldnt have spread sin to all mankind if only a few of the total of them sinned. only those would get sin and die, not all of them.

that being aside, it was simple, back than genes were close enough to perfection, and incest wasn't a sin (it couldnt havebeen, adam and eve had to reproduce,) so cain married one of his many sisters. and well it branched off like that.

Answer 10

God said males and females created them and this was before he made Eve, so Eve was not the first female and Adam not the first man, they were only the ones he put in the garden. The outers were all over the world.

Answer 11

Cain and Abel were both part of a set of boy/girl twins. Cain married Abel's twin and Abel married Cain's twin. Ew all around!