Christians only please. When Cain was sent into exile and knew a wife, who did he marry? Insest is wrong so..

Question

Don't say his sister because that can not be right. Plausible explainations only please.

What about the word first? Couldn't He have created others?

Answer 1

Adam and Eve were created ‘very good’ (Genesis 1:31) — the Hebrew meod tov, in the context of a finished creation which God had already called ‘good’ after most creation days, indicates physical perfection without any blemishes. So they would not have had copying mistakes, so brother-sister intermarriage would not have had the problem it has today. Harmful mutations would take many generations to accumulate to levels where close intermarriage would be dangerous for the offspring. As mentioned, even Abraham, living long after the creation of mankind, married his half-sister Sarah, and they were the ancestors of the very vibrant Jewish people group.

But as many centuries passed, many harmful, degenerative mutations accumulated in the human gene pool. So, as Ken pointed out, this is probably a major reason for God giving laws to the Israelites through Moses against intermarriage between close relatives (Leviticus 18–20). Today there would be even more chance of deformity/disease in the offspring of such a union than in Moses’ time—consequently, even first cousin marriages are outlawed in many countries.

Cain marrying his sister is the only solution that fits the biblical text. The Bible is very clear that all other people are descended from Adam (Acts 17:26), and Adam is called ‘the first man’ in 1 Cor. 15:45. Eve was so named because she was ‘the mother of all living’ (Gen. 3:20). Therefore there couldn’t possibly have been any other solution consistent with Scripture.

Answer 2

The bible doesn't specify. There is no evidence that it was his sister either. It could have been a niece or a grand niece (People lived a long time back then) or some other woman that God created for the purpose. That is one of those questions we will have to ask when we get there.

Answer 3

There are people running this planet that claim to be descendants of Cain, cain was an evil man and the evil bloodlines that rule the world have always interbred within the family to keep their power within the family, so why wouldn't Cain?

Answer 4

Marriage of a brother and sister was not wrong in these circumstances. There was no one else to marry but one of his sisters. Same with Seth. He married one of his sisters. Even Abraham hundreds of years later married his half sister Sarai (later named Sarah).
Forbidding to marry a sibling or close relative was not introduced until many years later with the introduction of the law of Moses.

Answer 5

God created adam, and eve. That is it, they were to reproduce. Cain, would have married someone in his family like a sister.

Answer 6

Since they were so close to being perfect it didn't matter that they were so closely related. God had told Adam and Eve to fill the earth. So it had to be his sister, there wasn't anyone else.

Answer 7

We'll probably never know . Something was probably lost, or mistranslated , somewhere along the way , possibly multiple times . (If nothing else, in the transition from oral to written form)

Answer 8

The Bible says God created Adam and Eve FIRST. It doesn't say they were the ONLY people He created.

Answer 9

There was no law then. Remember Cain also killed. You could say he got away with murder.

Answer 10

Incest wasn't wrong in Cain's day because there wasn't anyone else around!