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1 | Cain and Seth's wives descended from who | Genesis | kalos | 45252 | ||
Q: Where did Cain get his wife? A: Genesis informs us that after the birth of Seth (their third son following Cain and Abel) Adam and Eve "begot [other] sons and daughters" (Gen. 5:4). The exact number is not mentioned, but you can imagine in 930 years (the life-span of Adam), there must have been quite a few. These children intermarried and during their long life spans mentioned in the rest of Genesis 5, they also had a multitude of children. Everyone that Cain had contact with would have been a descendent of his parents. Whether he married a sister (keep in mind, the biblical command against marrying close relatives was not given until thousands of years later during the time of Moses) or someone more distantly related, Cain's wife must have been a relative. Since the genetic make-up of the first human beings would have been more tolerant of near-relatives mating, this would not have created the problems that it would today. (www.backtothebible.org/bigquestions/bq_bigquestions.html) |
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2 | Cain and Seth's wives descended from who | Genesis | Scribe | 45389 | ||
Yes this was always so obvious to me that I was never stumped by this question the first time I heard it. When I heard the question often repeated I realized that these people did not read the bible. Those that think it is a hard question to answer are being silly. I found out years later that it was presented in the Scopes Monkey trials in America as some sort of good point. I was surprised to learn that the defense did not answer it with simplicity as it is obvious that after through hundreds of years there were plenty of women to marry. And it is obvious that those that raise the question about marrying relatives do not study the Bible either. For instance if they were going to make it a point then they would use Noah not Cain. There is no question that Noahs sons had children that at least at the beginning had to marry first cousins. And what about Abraham. Remember the reason he thought he could truthfuly say that Sarah was his sister is because he said " she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife."Ge 20:12 So what is the point? That Cain should not have married a close relative? Or that they think that Cain found a woman in a land when he got there? Or is the point that Cain went out and found a land called Nod already inhabited? This is not true. Cain started a city and he named it Enoch and then when Moses is telling us about it he tells us it was in the location of what was then called Nod when Moses is writing about it. But it was not called Nod when Cain settled there but in order for the reader to know where Enoch was located Moses tells us it was in the Land of Nod that Cain built a city and called in Enoch. It is obvious that Cain took a wife from Adams camp. Genesis 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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3 | Cain and Seth's wives descended from who | Genesis | kalos | 45406 | ||
Scribe: Excellent post! Regarding the question: "Where did Cain get his wife?", I agree 110 percent with what you wrote: "When I heard the question often repeated I realized that these people did not read the bible. Those that think it is a hard question to answer are being silly." Any answer other than Cain married a close relative of his and a descendant of Adam and Eve is pure non-Scriptural speculation and inane nonsense. Grace to you, kalos |
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