How did Cain find a wife in the Land of Nod, if we are all descendants of Adam and Eve?
2007-12-09 11:36:26 · 14 answers · asked by smedrik 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The only possible answer is that he married his sister. Genealogies in the Bible generally only chronicled males. Genesis says that Adam had other children (Gen 5:4); it doesn't say when, but that doesn't factor out children that had been around along with Cain and Abel. It seems a bit strange to me that Adam and Eve wouldn't have children in the time it took for these two to grow up.
It's pretty safe to say it wasn't "incest" (as in the sin) at the time. God wanted them to be fruitful and multiply (Gen 1:28); that wouldn't possible at that time while being true to His command if it's wrong to bear a child with a sibling. Abraham married (and had sex with, obviously) his sister (Gen 20:11-12), and yet he was respected by God (Genesis 26:4-5; Isa 45:8). So, incest was not a sin in Abraham's time; and so, it must have become a sin (part of the Law) when God gave His instruction through Moses (Lev 18).
So; there's no reason to believe that Cain's wife was not his sister. It wasn't a sin; and there was no other way for him or any of his other siblings to procreate.
2007-12-09 11:58:28 · answer #1 · answered by Ken Prince 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Everyone who was created was not named in the Bible. Adam and Eve were only the first. Read Genesis 4:17.
Cain's wife was not his sister, she was a woman of the land of Nod (verse 16).
2007-12-09 19:42:58 · answer #2 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to the Midrashim, Adam's first wife, Lilith, who had been created directly from dust and the breath of life, had left and gone out to the Land of Nod when Adam insisted she lay subordinate to him during coitus.
2007-12-09 19:43:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
That's a mystery that only God knows, trust me! There is something fishy in Heaven! In the days of Noah some male angels came down to Earth to copulate with the girls from around here because they noticed that they were "beautiful"!!! Maybe some female angels did the same with Cain! In both cases it appears that sex in Heaven must be very lousy or too restrictive!
2007-12-09 19:46:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
One of my major questions that have never been answered.
Also, why was Cain marked to "keep his enemies from killing him?" Wouldn't Adam and Eve tell their kids not to kill Cain? And why give one of their daughters to killer Cain?
Just reveals the Bible to be fantasy.
2007-12-09 19:43:08 · answer #5 · answered by Aravah 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Read Genesis,God filled the earth with males and females,long before he make Adam.
2007-12-09 19:56:58 · answer #6 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I read that and it was pretty obvious to me that the other offspring came AFTER Cain left. I think people are really, really fishing on that one when they try to salvage the total absurdity of it all.
2007-12-09 19:51:08 · answer #7 · answered by An Independent 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I would say the most logical answer is he married his sister. The Bible mentions sons, but not usually daughters. Adam and Eve probably had daughters and other sons too. That or maybe a niece or something. Today, thats taboo. Back then, mandatory.
2007-12-09 19:41:09 · answer #8 · answered by ~*<3J<3*~ 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Because Cain's wife was a relative of his.We are all descendants of Adam/Eve.
2007-12-09 19:43:39 · answer #9 · answered by paula r 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋
They lived for hundreds of years. People procreated....No one said she was the same age. She probably was a niece of some kind, technically I suppose.
2007-12-09 19:48:57 · answer #10 · answered by sweetnfoxychick 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋