I have a bible question...where did cain and abels wives come from?

Question

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Answer 1

They were their sisters

Answer 2

The Bible does not say where they came from. There are many possibilities. It could be that they were Cain and Abel's sisters because Adam and Eve had other children. It also could be that God made more people than just Adam and Eve. They were the first but it doesn't say they were the only ones God made.

Answer 3

Adam & Eve had sons and daughters. Some commentaries suggest Cain and Abel each had twin sisters. Just because the verse stating that Adam & Eve had sons AND daughters comes after the story of Cain & Abel doesn't mean that no daughters were born before that incident.

Answer 4

At that time (before the law of Moses) it was not a sin to have 'sex' with yuour sister. The wives of Cain and Abel, would have been there biological sisters. Adam had daughters also (Gen. 5:4).

Answer 5

Some of the above answers are fairly close, but let us see what the Bible itself has to say.

First of all, Cain murdered Abel thus disallowing him from having a wife. (Genesis 4:1-8)

Adam and Eve had other children, both "sons and daughters." (Genesis 5:4)

All humans are descended from Eve, according to Genesis 3:20.

All humans are descended from Adam as well, according to Acts 17:26; compare Romans 5:12.

So Cain would have to marry a close relative, such as a sister. He took his wife to Nod; he did not meet her there. When it says in the KJV that he "knew her" there, that was in the carnal sense; that is to say they had sexual intercourse, as is clear from the context. (Genesis 4:17)

It was not a sin to marry one's sister until the Law Covenant mediated by Moses was established. (Leviticus 18:6-18)

One example that shows this is of Abraham being married to his half-sister Sarah. ("And, besides, she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, only not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife." - Genesis 20:12.)

Answer 6

One theory I have read is that what made Adam and Eve special was that they both had souls, not that they were the only two individuals on earth.

Cain and Abel, born with souls, found wives in the area who didn't have souls. They were different.

After Cain killed Abel, Adam went awol. He could have fathered more children with women who WEREN'T fully human because they lacked a soul, and therefore his children fathered with women other than Eve weren't really human.

Answer 7

Hi,
Able was murdered by Cain, so no wife there, but Cain took is wife from the land of Nod as stated in the book of Genesis.

Answer 8

It would have to be more than one adam and eve?
Because the evidence also points at all the different races of people here.
Adam and Eve might be symbolic for man and woman just as Revelations is very symbolic in describing nations that makes
more sense.

Answer 9

The most common explanation is that Adam and Eve had other children that were not mentioned in the bible.

Answer 10

Cain and Able had sisters and they married them. Insist until many generations were born.

Answer 11

Their wives are mentioned, and were not their sisters... I don't know that anyone has an answer to this, but it seems possible that ADAM was not one man but a group of men, and Eve represented a group of women?