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who was Cain's wife?

2007-01-12 21:23:10 · 11 answers · asked by johannes e 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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In Gen. 6:1 Shows when Cain seed line & Adam seed line began to cross breed. The sons of God is Adam's seed line & the Daughters of men is Cain's seed line Or go back one seed further the seed of the serpent.

2007-01-12 21:34:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

The legend of Cain and Abel is supposed to be an explanation of the presence of two very different civilizations side by side about 5000-4000 BC or so.

One was the Sumerian civilization (farmers and fishermen, mostly). The other one was the Elamites (miners, shepherds, and smiths, mostly).

After Cain killed his brother, he supposedly went into the East (to the writer that would be toward the rising sun) into the land of Nod (the land of Wandering).

Take a look at a map. The Garden of Eden was in the area where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers come together. Now look to the east and what do you see? Mountains, lots of them. No place to settle into cities. That's the land of Nod.

Sumerian tradition is rich with stories of the rivalry between farmers and shepherds, between the people of the plains and the people of the mountains, and between Sumer and Elam, as if nothing else in the world was worth writing about. The two civilizations were like feuding brothers from the time writing is invented and we can read about it all the way up to the collapse of Sumer.

2007-01-12 22:30:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Genesis 4:17 says, "Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch." Who was his wife? It is implied in the biblical text that Cain married one of his sisters. Several facts lead us to this conclusion.
First, it is clear that Adam and Eve had a number of children. Genesis 5:4 says, "After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters." Since Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, and since God had commanded them (and their descendants) to be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28), it seems reasonable to conclude that Cain married one of his many sisters. It is also possible that he married a niece or even a grandniece.
One must keep in mind that in the early years of the human race there were no genetic defects that had yet developed as a result of the fall of man. By the time of Abraham, God had not yet declared this kind of marriage to be contrary to His will (see Genesis 20:12). Laws governing incest apparently did not become enacted until the time of Moses (Lev 18:7-17; 20:11,12,14,17,20,21). Hence, there was no prohibition regarding marrying a sister (or niece or grandniece) in the days of Cain.
To learn more on this subject you can go to http://www.answersingenesis.org

2007-01-13 11:09:13 · answer #3 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0 0

This is the book of the generations of Adam’ (Genesis 5:1). He had two sons at first, Cain and Abel. After Cain killed his brother, he was banished by Yahweh. ‘And Adam knew his wife again and she bore him a son and called his name Sheth.’ It is this line, the line of Sheth, that the Bible follows through a genealogy of patriarchs to Noah,
All we have in the Bible are a dozen verses. Yahweh punished Cain to become a nomad, ‘a fugitive and a vagabond on the Earth.’

And Cain went away from the presence of Yahweh
and dwelt in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
And Cain knew his wife and she conceived and bore Enoch;
And he built a city and called the name of the city by his son’s name, Enoch.
Several generations later, Lamech was born. He had two wives. Of one Jabal was born; ‘he was the father as such as dwell in tents and have cattle.’ Of the other, two sons were born. One, Jubal, ‘was the father of all such as play the lyre and pipe.’ The other son, Tubal-Kain, was ‘an artificer of gold and copper and iron.’

‘Cain took Awan his sister to be his wife and she bare him Enoch at the close of the fourth jubilee. And in the first year of the fifth week of the fifth jubilee, houses were built on Earth, and Cain built a city and called its name after the name of his son, Enoch.
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The Bible does not specifically say who Cain’s wife was. The only possible answer was 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 had surely had 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 or great-grandchildren of Adam and Eve at that time. Cain's wife (Genesis 4:17) was a daughter or granddaughter of Adam and Eve.

2007-01-12 21:40:10 · answer #4 · answered by Lorene 4 · 1 0

His sister. That was the law of the land. Some religions still practice this. Cain's descendants would have all perished in the flood. His blind grandson ended up killing him. He did it by accident.

2007-01-12 21:30:30 · answer #5 · answered by classyjazzcreations 5 · 1 1

MANKIND ADHAM
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Most have read when Cain talked with Abel and in the field killed him.
Gen.4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
God then cursed and drove Cain out, and Cain said.
Gen.4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
WHO IS CAIN WORRIED ABOUT?
Gen.4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
WHERE DID CAIN FIND A WIFE?
The answer is in the Hebrew text of (Gen.1:26 and Gen.2:7).
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MANKIND
Gen.1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
The word “man” (Gen.1:26) in the Hebrew text looks like this ( אדם ), with no article means “MANKIND”, transliterated is (adam).
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ADHAM
Gen.2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
The word “man” (Gen.2:7) in the Hebrew text looks like this ……………… ( את־האדם ), with article and particle means “THIS SAME MAN ADHAM”, transliterated is (eth-Ha adham).
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On the sixth day God created or made MANKIND.
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On the eighth day God formed THIS SAME MAN ADHAM.
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2007-01-14 09:30:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Mrs. Cain.

2007-01-12 21:27:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2 2

good question, biblically, his decendants didn't make a mention until much later in the book, where the women came from, got me, but if you want t be literal, sorry, his decendants came later in the book

2007-01-12 21:29:55 · answer #8 · answered by Thomas A 5 · 1 0

Guess you have to read all the 'begats' in Genesis. I'm in the middle of cooking, so you'll have to do it.
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2007-01-12 21:27:48 · answer #9 · answered by Kesta♥ 4 · 3 1

Have ye never played vampire: the masquerade?

2007-01-12 21:33:13 · answer #10 · answered by erynnsilver 4 · 0 3

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