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Question

The story of Cain and abel, cain kills abel and then it says he goes off with his wife and has offspring else where.

Where did his wife come from ??????????

I thought Adam and Eve only gave birth 3 children, Cain and abel and another boy called Seth, if this is accurate this wouldnt explain where Cain's wife came from

Answer 1

There really is no mystery here, undoubtedly Adam was not the first human on this earth, man roamed the land thousands of years before Adam, the vary fact that Cain took a wife simply means that there were other humans living at that time also, and to say that Adam & Eve were the first humans is absolutly absured, the writers of the bible had one motive, and that was to control the flock, however, they made many mistakes in presenting the contents of the bible, and Cain is a perfect example of that, Noah is another example of a story that is simply absured, Moses is another we can go on and on, and yet ignorants, and the lack of comon sense regarding the bible continues to florish by those where their motives for spreading these mythical stories certainly had nothing to do with God, but was only to attain wealth, and power from the poor in my opinion.

Answer 2

Do not limit your thoughts and visions when reading the Bible.

You look at it as though he left the field and immediately went into the city of Nod. Cain wandered for years. Through those years, Adam and Eve had more children, and those children had children. By the time he got to Nod, it was composed of his grand (or great grand) neices and nephews.
The reason the Bible jumps to Seth is because there wouldn't be any point in reading about Adam and Eve's other children if Seth would be the main focus. It was through his lineage that we come to Noah.

Look at it that way. Adam and Eve was more than just symbolism.

Answer 3

Adam and Eve had many children, and what is helpful to understand is that not all of the children's names were listed.
It is highly likely there where several children born before Cain. And certainly there were many born in between and after the three who are listed. The reason these three are given prominent mention is for what they specifically add to the story about God's relationship to mankind.
Cain and Abel represent the first murder among other things (as a picture of the progression of sin) and Seth is the son who Joseph (Mary's husband) can trace his blood line to.

Answer 4

You can't put this part of genesis in a box as far as time goes. You are thinking that things happened within a few days of eachother when that is not the case. People lived for hundreds of years and in that time Adam and Eve could have conceived and bore hundreds of children that had time to grow into maturity when Cain was banished from his immediate home and went off and married a wife (which most definitely was a sister). This is not to say that marriages of this nature are permissable but would have been in order to fulfil God's commandment of "be fruitful and multiply". What the Holy Spirit chose to omit from the story must not have been the most important things to take away from the tale. Let's keep focused on what's important. God loves us, He wants us to love eachother, and that no matter how often you mess up, God is waiting with open arms.

Answer 5

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.
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Answer 6

Where did Cain get his wife?
This is certainly one of the most ancient of all questions raised by Bible critics, and we can be sure that the superficial contradiction it implies did not escape notice by the original writers of the Bible. Cain was apparently the first son of Adam and Eve (Genesis 4:l) and Abel the second (Genesis 4:2). After Cain had murdered his brother Abel (Genesis 4:8), God punished him by sending him away from his home and from God’s presence forever. But then we are told that Cain was fearful of vengeance by others who might slay him (Genesis 4:14), that he knew his wife (Genesis 4:17), and even that he built a city. The descendants of Cain and the antediluvian civilization which they developed are described in Genesis 4:17-24. Skeptics have, of course, "wondered" where all those other people came from if no one except Adam, Eve, and Cain were living at this time. The idea that there might have been in the vicinity a "pre-Adamic" race of men is clearly precluded by the one equivocal Bible teaching that Adam was the "first man" (1 Cor. 15:45, etc.) and that Eve was "the mother of all living" (Genesis 3:20).
In the beginning, according to Scripture, man was created "very good" and would have lived forever had he not sinned. But, 'by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin' (Romans 5:12). Even after the reign of decay and death entered the world at the time of God’s great curse on man’s dominion (Genesis 3:17), most men did live for hundreds of years and undoubtedly had large families. Adam and Eve are said to have had both "sons and daughters" (Genesis 5:4) during the 930 years of Adam’s lifetime, and the same is true of each of the other antediluvian patriarchs lists in the genealogies of Genesis 5. The average life-span of these patriarchs (excluding Enoch, who was taken out of the world before he died) is 912 years. Since the Bible does not indicate at what period of his life he murdered his brother, took his wife, or built his city, there is obviously no contradiction in the record. Consequently, neither the original writer of Genesis 4 nor any later editors ever felt there was a problem that needed explanation. Now of course, at least one son and one daughter of Adam and Eve had to marry each other in the first generation after the beginning in order for the race to get started at all.
However, there were no mutant genes in the genetic systems of Adam and Eve, as these had come directly from the creative hand of God Himself. Thus no genetic harm could have resulted had Cain or some other son of Adam married his sister. In fact, it would undoubtedly have taken many generations before enough genetic mutations (which are random, and therefore harmful, changes in the highly ordered structure of the germ cell, brought about by penetration of the cell by shortwave-length radiation or some other destructive agent) could have accumulated in the human race to make such marriages of close relatives genetically harmful.

Answer 7

Read on MacDuff. A few verses later, when it begins the geneology from Adam to Noah, it says that Adam lived for 800 years after begetting Seth (930 total) and begat sons AND DAUGHTERS.

BINGO!!!!

BTW: The Bible does not always hold to a perfect chronology. some people are named because it is through them that the story is told. Others, who have no impact on the story line are not so named.

Answer 8

Adam & Eve had daughters. Their names aren't mentioned because women in general weren't considered important in that time unless they did something incredible. So the short answer is Adam & Eve's sons had children with Adam & Eve's daughters.

Answer 9

women were not that important in those days, so even if they did have daughters they would not have been mentioned.

Personally, I think that the real reason is that the story of Adam and Eve is just symbolism... I'm Catholic by the way...

Answer 10

Adam and Eve had lots of children. This was before the Exodus law about marrying close relatives