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Bible Question: Please tell me where did Cain or Seth's wives come from if we are all descendants of Adam and Eve.The Bible says that Cain knew his wife. My mother has pondetred over this all her life.Can you give me an explanation.Thankyou, linjmer

Bible Answer: Hi linjmer You asked were did Cains wife come from? Lets look at what the bible says.Gen.2:7 says 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. 1CO.15:45 explains this to be the first man Adam , And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Now what else in verse 7 shows this to be the natural man , it says that he was formed of the dust of the ground. Now the word formed comes from the Hebrew word yatsar meaning to squeeze or mold into shape , it has the same
meaning as the word potter in JER.18:6. Therefore you can see that we are to be molded as the potter molds the clay , but molded into what? The image of God. and you cannot obtain His image except though Christ. Lets look back to see when natural man was created.Gen.1:24 It says And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind , now this living creature is the natural man ( mankind with all the different races) for the words living creature and living soul have the same meaning , they come from the same Hebrew words chay (living)and nephesh (creature) , soul. Now the word nephesh has this meaning in the Hebrew , 1 soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite,
mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion
1a that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man
1b living being
1c living being (with life in the blood)
1d the man himself, self, person or individual
1e seat of the appetites
1f seat of emotions and passions
1g activity of mind
1g1 dubious
1h activity of the will
1h1 dubious
1i activity of the character
1i1 dubious
Strong's lexicon
Therefore you can see by this that the living creature and the living soul are both man. Now that we know that man was created a living creature and there were more then just one man and one woman created lets look at Cain and his wife.
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. Here we have another question
that must be asked , where did Cain’s wife come from ? This is a question most commentaries
skip over because of the problem that it creates. And that problem is that Cain’s wife must have
been his sister , as there were only Adam and Eve to populate the earth. This then would indicate
that incest was okayed by God , but we know from Lev.18:9 And 20:17 that we are not to have
sexual relationships with our sisters. Other commentaries state that in the beginning before God gave his laws that incest was okey because there wouldn’t have been any polluted genes. But if God hates incest now he would have hated it then for MAL.3:6 says For I am the LORD, I
change not... Now we can do away with this problem of where Cains wife comes from if we look
back to what was said before concerning the living creature in GEN.1:24. and that is the living
creature is all the different races of mankind. Therefore Cains wife comes form one of these
different races of man. This not only takes away the confusion of where Cains wife come from
but also takes God of the hook of being the originator ( by implication because he only created Adam and Eve ) of incest.In Christ Scott
All scripture taken from the KJV.

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