In the Bible story, who was Cain's wife?

Question

After leaving Eden, Cain went to the "Land of Nod", where he married and had kids. If Adam & Eve were the first humans, who was tis wife and how did she come to exist?

Answer 1

LDS religion believes it was the daughter of his brother -
Mose5:28
And it came to pass that Cain took one of his brothers’ daughters to wife, and they loved Satan more than God.

Moses 5: 3 (2-3).
And from that time forth, the sons and daughters of Adam began to divide two and two in the land, and to till the land, and to tend flocks, and they also begat sons and daughters.

But I have also read theories that while Adam and Eve were in the garden of eden that natural evolution was continuing on the outside of the garden, and that she came from there, as well as those that are of the idea that she was lilith or one of lilith's 'children'.

Also :
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/tools/cains_wife.asp

http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/cainswife.shtml

Answer 2

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 3

I do not remember reading a verse that really says they were the first humans on earth. If you might have noticed, the sequence of creation in chapter 1 differ from chapter 2 of the same book called Genesis. The reason is that chapter 1 talks about the earth, while chapter 2 talks about Eden. Eden is a different place where there is no law of polarity. It is a place where there is only life, and no death. There is only light and no darkness. There is only love, no hate. There is only good no evil, etc.

Eden is the place where we will all go back to if we prove ourselves worthy of it.

Answer 4

I have been answering this question many times. If you have a Bible in your hands, go back to...
Genesis 1:24-27 where you will find that the animals were created BEFORE "The male and female" (simultaneously)and that was on the 6th day.
Genesis 2:4-25 contrary to Genesis 1 animals here were created AFTER Adam not before and it may even have taken much later before the animals were made because God still had to see Adam as a lonely man and should not be left alone.. Then Eve followed after the animals. This is not an error in reporting or writing the events of creation but rather in explaining that there were people before Adam and Eve. The book does not say if Adam and Eve were created on the 7th or 8th day but most likely much much later. The animals here may slightly vary from the kind of animals created before in Genesis 1. If the garden of Eden was agreed to have been in Babylon, therefore the animals available there will have to be the ones that can adopt to the environment in the Middle East at that time and not all that can be found in the entire world today.
The pre-Adamic people were believers of many Gods represented by nature and or elements of nature evidently discovered in many archeological diggings and ancient historical findings. This most probably was the reason for all the mythologies and folklores you can read in many different parts of the globe.
Adam's creation therefore is a story of enlightenment of the first man to learn about a Singular God. One reason why his descendant are monotheists. A reason why the First commandment handed down to Moses stated that there should be no other God before Him. Otherwise, that condition will never even be mentioned.
Going back again to Genesis where Cain was worried why he was afraid if he will be sent out of the garden. He said, "If people will see me wandering outside, they might kill me." Since Cain was said to be one of the first two children of Adam and Eve, it is impossible for Cain to say his fear about other people seeing him. Otherwise he could have said, "what if in the event that my brothers will grow up and find me later, will they not kill me for avenging their brother who was also my brother?"
This will also explain to you later, who the Sons of God and the daughters of men are. For the purpose of emphasizing that the Holy Book was written for the Jews (descendants of Adam and Eve), the writers will have to give importance to them by calling the Jews as Sons of God and the daughters of men are the people outside Adam's clan who will be called later as the Gentiles. Contrary again to what has been speculated as Angels who took human forms and marry whom they choose among earthlings they saw who are beautiful.
Jeremiah 31:27-30 clearly saw them when he wrote, "The days are coming," declares the Lord, "When I will plant the House of Israel and the House of Judah with the "OFFSPRING OF MEN AND ANIMALS".........there, Jeremiah was saying about the men who were created along side with animals on the 6th day of creation.

Answer 5

The wife of Cain was one of the daughters of his brother. They married before he traveled to the land of Nod.

Answer 6

Cain married his sister. This was not incest, but rather a natural and necessary event.

As a matter of fact, this still happens today in many countries (and perhaps Alabama....... sorry, guys, I have family in 'bama so I had to throw that in there!)

Answer 7

she was Lilith, Adam's first wife, who refused to procreate. She was cast out into the desert.

Answer 8

Unnamed in scripture....

Either God created more people...or....incest was not an issue in the pro-creative process.

Simple explanation I believe.....

Answer 9

probably a sister, incest was not really frowned upon i guess

Answer 10

from what i can tell, his mom!