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1 | Who did Cain marry to have children? | Genesis | OLDSCHOOL49 | 32018 | ||
CAIN MARRIED HIS SISTER. | ||||||
2 | Who did Cain marry to have children? | Genesis | judeddokoinu | 62147 | ||
I don't remember anything about his sister being the one he married. It was just someone from the land of nod, right? | ||||||
3 | Who did Cain marry to have children? | Genesis | kalos | 62159 | ||
Cain and the Land of Nod 'Some claim that the passage in Genesis 4:16-17 means that Cain went to the land of Nod and found a wife. Thus, they can conclude there must have been another race of people on the earth, who were not descendants of Adam, who produced Cain's wife. ' And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch: and he built a city, and he called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. 'From what has been stated previously, it is clear that all humans, Cain's wife included, are descendants of Adam. However, this passage does not say that Cain went to the land of Nod and found a wife. John Calvin, commenting on these verses, states: ' From the context we may gather that Cain, before he slew his brother, had married a wife; otherwise Moses would now have related something respecting his marriage.[13] 'Cain was married before he went to the land of Nod. He didn't find a wife there, but "knew" (had sexual relations with) his wife.[14] 'Others have argued that because Cain built a "city" in the land of Nod, there must have been a lot of people there. However, the Hebrew word translated as "city" need not mean what we might imagine from the connotations of "city" today. The word meant a "walled town" or a protected encampment.[15] Even a hundred people would be plenty for such a "city." Nevertheless, there could have been many descendants of Adam on the earth by the time of Abel's death (http://christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c004.html). |
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