Adam and Eve had sons and daughters(Genesis 5:4) Only three sons are mentioned though and they were Cain,Abel and Seth.
Where, then, did Cain get his wife? It was obviously from among his own family. His wife was one of his fleshly sisters, a daughter of Adam and Eve.“But such a union is incest!” some may object,It must be remembered, however, that circumstances were different in earlier times. Adam and Eve were created perfect, and the instruction for them ‘to multiply and fill the earth’ would necessarily require that their offspring marry one another and reproduce. (Gen. 1:28) But as perfect humans, their children would have been perfect as were their parents.
Even though Adam and Eve sinned and became imperfect, Cain and his brothers and sisters were still so near to physical perfection that the children they produced did not suffer the same adverse effects as do children born of such unions today. Even some 2,000 years afterward, God’s faithful servant Abraham married his half-sister Sarah, and God did not disapprove. (Gen. 20:12) It was yet another 450 years or so before God saw fit to provide his nation of Israel a body of laws that forbade incest on penalty of death. (Lev. 18:8-17) By that time imperfection had apparently developed to such an extent that no longer was it safe for close relatives to marry.
So, really, the question of where Cain got his wife is not a difficult one. The answer is provided right within the Bible, and it becomes obvious when the Bible account is read carefully.
2006-11-19 02:15:36
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answered by Micah 6
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The bible only mentions Cain and Abel. I'm sure that Adam and Eve had lots, and lots and lots more kids that the bible just doesn't mention. The bible only mention Adam and Eve eating food once or twice also but I'm sure they ate food more than that. The bible usually only mentions the really relevant things. We also don't know how long Adam and Eve were in the garden before they sinned and were kicked out, they may have been in there for million and millions of yrs, so they would have had plenty of time of procreate more kids, and these kids have kids and those kids have kids...etc..
So answer your question Cain and Abel would have had to had sex with a sister, cousin, or even relatives that were very distantly related due to the blood line.
2006-11-19 02:09:33
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answered by bigbadwolf 5
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Actually, at this point the Bible makes reference to other people in the land that are not descendants of Adam & Eve, hence the "Mark of Cain", due to Cain's crying out to God, "Whoever meets me will kill me!" This implies that there were other people at this point, and brings up one of the discussions in Biblical lore of the idea that Adam and Eve were the beginning of the early line of David, which eventually bore Jesus. The Jewish historian Josephus wrote that, ‘The number of Adam’s children, as says the old tradition, was thirty-three sons and twenty-three daughters.’ He based this on the passage in Genesis 5:4 ‘And the days of Adam after he had fathered Seth were eight hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters.’ Because we are given no idea of the time that passed, this is considered a logical argument. This isn't to say that I agree with it--I feel a lot of facts are dropped into loopholes and supposition--but that's the explanation that's been given.
2016-05-22 03:20:01
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answered by Anonymous
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Cain and Abel were not Adam's only children. Gen. 5:4 says that Adam "became father to sons and daughters." There is no Bible record that Abel was married before he was murdered. But Cain's wife was one of his sisters.
2006-11-19 02:10:17
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answered by LineDancer 7
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1 This is the written account of Adam's line.
When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them "man. [a] "
3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. 4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 5 Altogether, Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.
6 When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father [b] of Enosh. 7 And after he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters
2006-11-19 02:10:26
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answered by Anonymous
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Adam and eve breed more children and they breed more, and there is a part of the bible that God said Go and multiply......
2006-11-19 03:06:12
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answered by picturesque 3
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Adam and Eve weren't the only people, and their god wasn't the only god. There were other Gods who made other people.
Just remember that the Jews were the chosen people of the God of the Old Testament.
What happened is this: One day all the Gods got together, and they chose their teams, just like kids choose teams in junior high school gym classes.
Some Gods were more powerful, and they put together teams with lots of people, like India and China. They were kind of like the George Steinbrenner of Gods.
The God of the Old Testament was just a puny little God, so he had to choose his people from the leftovers, and he ended up choosing the little group of people called Jews.
Anyway, people didn't play by their Gods' rules, and people from different teams (religions) have always married people from other Gods' teams.
That makes all the Gods very mad, and they often tell their chosen people to not marry people from other Gods' teams. In the Christian Bible, Second Corinthians tells the Christian team to not marry people from other teams.
Anyway, to answer your question, the children of Adam and Eve married people from other Gods' teams, thus becoming the world's first free agents.
2006-11-19 02:07:37
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answered by Jim 5
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Fairy tales aren't supposed to be real, and the tale of Adam and Eve and their 2 sons is just that - a fairy tale without a happy ending.
2006-11-19 02:09:36
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answered by mailrick12 3
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Our first parents lived a long time. They had children that didn't know God at all. Since there life spam was so great they could have had hundreds of them.. It was a cousin that Cain and Seth took as wives.... Jim
2006-11-19 02:12:42
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answered by Anonymous
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As with Noah & his Ark, David & Goliath, the parting of the Red Sea and many many more It's a STORY.
2006-11-19 02:10:58
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answered by Anonymous
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