Genesis says that Cain went off and found a city and married there so where did they come from?

Question

Does that mean God advocates incest since they likely would have been siblings? Or were there other people living in the area around the time of creation so Adam and Eve weren't the first humans?

Answer 1

You got it. Incest had to populate the earth at the beginning of time. If there was only 2 people and they had kids, well they would have to mate with each other since there were nobody else on the earth

Answer 2

MANKIND ADHAM

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Most have read when Cain talked with Abel and in the field murdered him.
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Gen.4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

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God then cursed and drove Cain out, and Cain said.
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Gen.4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

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Whom is Cain worried about, every one that finds me shall slay me?
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Gen.4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

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Where did Cain find a wife?
The answers are in the Hebrew text of (Gen.1:26 and Gen.2:7).
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__Mankind__

Gen.1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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The word “man” (Gen.1:26) in the Hebrew text looks like this ( אדם ).
With no article means “Mankind”, transliterated is (adam).
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__Adham__

Gen.2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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The word “man” (Gen.2:7) in the Hebrew text looks like this ( את־האדם ).
With the article and particle means “The man Adham”, transliterated is (eth-Ha adham).
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__The Answers__

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On the sixth day, God created or made “Mankind”.
On the eighth day, God formed “the man Adham”.
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Gen.3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

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So why is it written in (Gen.3:20) that Eve was the mother of all living?
Because it was God’s plan, umbilical cord to umbilical cord would be born Jesus Christ.
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Answer 3

Cain married his sister. Adam and Eve kept cranking out kids long after Cain left the nest. Eventually, he meets a woman. It's his sister, but he doesn't care because he didn't grow up with her. Besides, who would you report them to?
Also, how many kids can you crank out in 900 years? Even if you were only capable of reproducing for a few hundred of those years, that would still be plenty of time. Incest didn't create problems back then because the human race was genetically perfect and there wasn't enough time for bad genes to accumulate and cause mutations. It wasn't until the time of Moses, about 2,500 years later, that God said, "OK, no more incest." That's because enough time had passed and enough generations that incest caused mutations in offspring.

Answer 4

i think it says he went off and built a big city. wonder why he needed a city to live in? he, being all alone. this is just a old hebrew story that was put in the torah, bible and koran. life on earth has been around app.4.5 billion years. fact not fairy-tale.

Answer 5

You are trying to apply reason to the bible.

Try not to do this, and respect the blind, unreasonable faith of others.

Answer 6

where did they come from: -- evolution?