Where did Cain get his wife ?

Answer 1

The Bible says that Adam and Eve had other sons and daughters. Genesis 5:4 says "And the days of Adam after his fathering Seth came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters."

Scientists agree that, looking at the laws of genealogy, we all came from one human pair. So, wether you believe man was created or evolved, sexual relations must have occured somewhere between a brother and sister or cousins.

Sometime after the Flood, God gave laws to the Isrealites and incest was forbidden. This is because man was so far removed from Edenic perfection that such a relationship could have adverse affects on any children born from it.

Cain would have married his sister, or perhaps a cousin, but this would not have been classed as incest because it would not have caused any ill-effects for their children. It was also necessary to kick-start the human race.

Incidentally, some people read into the Bible that Cain's wife came from the Land of Fugitiveness (Land of Nod) and assume that other people were created as well as Adam and Eve. However, the Bible merely says that Cain went to the Land of Fugitiveness and while there his wife gave birth to Enoch. It in no way implies that he met her there.

Genesis 4:16 says that Cain "took up residence in the land of Fugitiveness to the east of Eden." Then verse 17 says: "Afterward Cain had intercourse with his wife and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch." It does not say that Cain left for the land of Fugitiveness alone and that he got married after he got there.

If there were multiple creations of humans and only Adam and Eve sinned, then only Adam and Eve would have been punished. The only mention of death in Eden was if God was disobeyed. Had others been created and if they did not sin, then they would still be here on earth.

Acts 17:26 says: "And he made out of one man every nation of men, to dwell upon the entire surface of the earth."

Answer 2

From the same place his younger brother Seth got his: they were their sisters.

Now I know that sounds gross to most people (if it isn't gross to you, you have problems...) and rightly so. A couple thousand years later, when God gave the Law to Moses, several of the minor laws prohibited incest. But in the days of the first humans, what other choice did they have? I'm sure they didn't ask God to take their ribs and make wives for them like he did for Adam...

Also, millenia of genetic changes have made the marriage of close relatives unsafe (for the health of their children), and culture has made it taboo. So, don't live by Cain and Seth's example: don't marry relatives.


Edit: regarding the "other people" that might have killed Cain without his "mark," Adam lived for about 900 years. He certainly could have fulfilled God's instruction to "fill the earth" in that time. So there were probably PLENTY of people.

Answer 3

Gen 3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Gen 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Gen 4:12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth
Gen 4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

In analizing the verses stated herein, Adam and Eve were drove out from the garden of Eden to the east and Cain was also sent to the East. It is understood that the wife of Cain is the daughter of Adam and Eve who live and stayed at the east side of the garden of Eden.

Gen 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
Gen 5:4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
Gen 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Gen 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

You analize these verses and you will know how men and women multiplied.Read the bible so you may know everything a bout it.(the word knew in the bible is the sexual act) take note of it)
jtm

Answer 4

There were no other people on earth other than adam eve cain and abel...so they must have slept with eve to pro-create.Otherwise I am sure as smart and detailed as god is he would have included in the text if he had created more humans from the dirt or sky or bones...

Answer 5

From the Land of Nod but where that land is no one knows may be its next door to the land of Nap or Kip
but at the end of the day its just a story not real life

Answer 6

I don't know, but I heard she was a swinger, just hadn't made it to the apple tree on the evolutionary chain, guess they didn't get that far in Nod. It's funny how all their kids had the same names as his father Adam's, guess names were hard to come by. It's also odd how all the fundamentalists really seem to be into this incest thing.

Answer 7

Adam and eve had other children, yes i know its classed as incest but it was allowed to populate the world

Answer 8

I thought he went to the Land of Nod and got one. No idea where she came from but there were plenty of gullible people in the world then as there is now and a lot of them will believe anything

Answer 9

From the land of nod.
I dont believe in the bible or god but at least i have read it before criticising.
Maybe you should do the same.

Answer 10

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