I have never had a good answer? Where did the second woman come from?

Question

Where did the second woman come from? God created eve. Adam and Eve had Cain and Abel. Then they had Seth (right?) Somehow both Cain and Seth managed to get married? I may have a few details wrong in my story but my point is where did the second woman come from?

Answer 1

If you read the bible carefully and think about what it says you will realize that it is saying that god created "his" people. not everyone. When Cain was marked by god he left and went to a land "east of eden" where he met his future wife. God does not claim to have created these "other" people.

I am a decendent of the other people not a son of god so I can't got to the christian heaven so the christians can stop trying to convert me.

Answer 2

Nowhere does Scripture say that Adam and Eve ONLY had sons: Cain, Abel and Seth. They all lived for centuries, as there was no disease. Also, there was no reason for prohibitions against incest (yes, Cain married his sister or perhaps another relation) because the genetic pool was free from defect.

God had commanded Adam and Eve to reproduce and fill the earth (Gen. 1:28). Men in that time, before the flood, lived to great ages (see chapter 5). Adam, for example, lived to be 930 years old before he died (Gen. 5:5), and most of his descendants before the flood lived about 900 years. If there are no gaps in the genealogies, this means Adam would have been alive following the birth of Lamech, father of Noah, 8 generations later! Hence, although they eventually died, people lived many years before they died. This greatly multiplied the number of people living on earth because, at any one time, there were many generations still living.

Answer 3

Adam and Eve had way more kids than just Seth, Cain, and Abel. They had hundreds of kids.

Answer 4

Adam “became father to sons and daughters.” (Genesis 5:4) So Cain took one of his sisters or perhaps one of his nieces as a wife. Later, God’s Law to the Israelites did not permit the marriage of a fleshly brother and sister.—Leviticus 18:9.

Answer 5

There were other people created after Adam and Eve. They were just the first ones. If you read your living bible, the footnotes help explain that after Cain killed Able, he had to worry about other people wanting to kill him. Some suggest that it showed the future, rapid rate of multiplication from Adam and Eve, but more likely, other people were created and incest was not a problem.

Answer 6

They were the daughters of Adam and Eve that forgot to be mentioned. I guess they're just not important enough.

Another question is, whom did Cain beget with after his exile? I mean, did they also exile his sister whom he was, uh, having relations with? That's not fair. She didn't do anything. Were there people who were not created by Jehova? If, so, then why are people not descended of his chosen people so interested in them instead of THEIR creators? Was it Lilith? If so, why wasn't that mentioned?

Basically, plot hole. I hate those in a story.

Answer 7

God created other people. The Bible only tells the stories of those from the family of the Prophets: Adam, Moses, Lot, Noah, Jesus, etc.

Answer 8

Adam and Eve had many children, some of them daughters. For whatever reason, though, only three of their sons are named.

Answer 9

Genesis 5 tells us that Adam had other sons and daughters.
Incest was not illegal, nor stigmatized back then, so marrying a sister, or a niece was not forbidden.

Answer 10

Cain and Abel had sex with Eve.

Logically, back when humans were few and far between, you had to have sex with close family members. There was no other choice.