Where did Adam's sons get wives from?

Question

Seriously, there were no people on earth that time, and God created only Adam and Eve. I shudder to think that they might have married their sisters, which is sin, incest to be specific.

Answer 1

Adam and Eve had sons and daughters. They had to marry their sisters. There were no other people, unless you think that God created others. The only sin at that time was disobedience to the Word of God. Scripture teaches that the law was given to teacht the people what sin was. You are accusing them of breaking a law that did not exist.

Answer 2

All the families of the earth originated with Adam and Eve. Therefore, Cain's wife was either a sister, niece, or great niece. While laws against marriages between close relatives would later be put in place, such marriages were necessary in the early years of man's existence.
Some read the Genesis account and are left with the impression that Cain, Abel, and Seth were the only children Adam and Eve had, but Genesis 5:4 says plainly that Adam "had sons and daughters." No doubt, Cain's wife was one of Adam's daughters or granddaughters.

Answer 3

How do you know there were no other people on Earth at the time?
The Bible is a book of stories - not saying it isn't true by any means but still the same it is a compilation of several stories.
One question you may ask yourself is, does it say anywhere in the Bible that God only made Adam and Eve, or could he have made others and it just wasn't mentioned.
No where in the Bible does it say the boys had sister's either (that I know of) but some assume maybe they did. So why not assume God made other people as well.

Answer 4

Gen 1:28 God told Adam and Even to be Fruitful and Multiply,


What if they where OTHER human on the earth with Adam and Eve, and Adam and Eve are the ones that "went against God and Sin" so they are the one talked about?

It wasn't until they Ate of the Fruit did woman get cursed with Labor and have Cain and Abel said to be the first born sons/

Good question

Answer 5

Incest was not sin then God made no laws regarding sex until long after there were enough people to make it neccessary.

The interesting thing is this same question needs to be applied to the EVOLUTIONISTS if scientist can "prove" that we all came from one woman in africa and use that to try to say we evolved from that one person who did this persons children have children with?

The interesting thing is SCIENCE says incest is bad because the genetic damage would DESTROY us so why didn't it destroy us back then? Only by using a biblical answer of God created Perfect Bodies (Adam and Eve) and only through sin was degeneration of our bodies introduced and that is why the people lived so long back then.and then EVENTUALLY as we got more generations from Adam and Eve were our bodies no longer capable of handling the genetic problems of incest THEN God made rules against it. This is yet another way that Science contradicts itself but the Bible keeps going on.

Answer 6

Yet again this question pops up among the ignorant. And no one answers it correctly. Speaking strictly biblically. Genesis 1:27 states God created man and woman in his image. This on the sixth day. Then in Genesis 2 it talks of the seventh day and the LORD God forming man made of dust and placing him in the garden.
All of this implies that god made men and women before Adam and Eve specifically and he made Adam and Eve a day later. Finally it was the "LORD God" that made them, which if you've studied the history, you would know LORD God refers to writings done later in the religion. The book of gensis has different versions and some have been combined. LORD God is used in later versions.
In no place does it ever say adam and eve were the ONLY people created. God did not fill the skies with birds by creating only one pair.

Answer 7

It actually wasn't a sin then because that had to be done so that the human population could grow and you and I can exist. Today if two relatives had a baby together, the baby would have several problems. Back at the beginning of the earth, there were no genetic mutations, so incest didn't cause any problems. It had to happen.

Answer 8

Cain born with twin sister / Abel born with twin sister.

Cain married Luluwa the twin sister of Abel.

Adam isn't the father of Cain

Cain's father is Satan

Adam and Eve weren't the only people on Earth.
There were tribes in other lands (nations) at the time.

Answer 9

Did you not read the complete book of Genesis. I suspect you should blow the dust off your bible and look it up. And in all actuality incest was quite common in those times. It was quite common during the time of European Kings too. That it were the term blue blood came from. Many of the children born to those marriages had hemophilia.

Answer 10

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.