Where did Cain wife come from?
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Hello BibleGuy the answer is simple. It is clearly writen. Gen 5:1-2, Gen 1:26-28.  Cain wife was from Adam, not His father, she was not His sister, Adam was the name of those God created in the Begining and called their name Adam, this is not talking about Adam & Eve who where in the Garden. Adam was the Name of those God created and 1 of Them He chose and Place in the Garden, thus showing His way even from the Begining chosing from Mankind (Adam) to guide and lead the others in the way.  Adam was not just One person but many. Not just One color.  If you like to know more contack me at PastorDoulos@yahoo.com
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Ummm...no. This information is entirely incorrect. God created the Garden of Eden in what was to become Mesopotamia, for He listed the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Genesis, thus indicating the location. Therefore, the first peoples were most likely Middle-Eastern--not African, Caucasian, or Asian.\n\nSecondly, Cain only killed his brother, Abel, because God favored Abel. Genesis 4:8 reads, "Now Cain said to his brother Abel, 'Let's go out to the field.' And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him."\n--New International Version (NIV) of the Bible\n\nCain was then punished by God who proclaimed, "When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth."\n-Genesis 4:12\n\nHowever, he protected Cain from someone murdering him by swearing that he (the murderer) would "suffer vengeance seven times over."\n\nFinally, Cain did not move to Africa, nor was he banished to Africa. Genesis 4:16-17 clearly states, "(16) So Cain went out from the Lord's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden. (17) Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city and he named it after his son Enoch."\n\nAlso, Pontius Pilate was the Roman official who was hesistant to sentence Jesus to death, but ultimately decided to give the maddening crown an ultimatum: free the murderer Barabus, or crucify the man claiming to be the son of man. Obviously, they chose to crucify Jesus.\n\nAll in all, I seem to find a majority of African Americans actually believe the Gospel and worship Jesus. There seems to be a stronger correlation between African-Americans believing in Jesus Christ than there is of Caucasians believing in Him. However, that could just be where I live.
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reverse evolution\n\nit began with cain
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There does not seem to be any passages in the Bible referring to her other than the account beginning in Genesis 7:7 which mentions Noah's wife. His wife is not named in the Bible for certain; however, according to Jewish tradition her name is Naamah.
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There was an interesting documentary on this a few days ago on Discovery Times on cable I watched the other day that explains it to my satisfaction at the time......When Adam and Eve were forged by God and cast out of the Garden of Eden and Cain and Able were born it is theorized there were other tribal humans living outside the Garden of Eden and when the groups intermixed the "Holy" families were born under one bloodline......Those folks were of somewhat African and Middle Eastern ancestry in the countries we know of as today.........And hence the variety of complexions in the human race today as we know it
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Good question! \n\nFirst of all, they didn't have any children until they were expelled from the Garden.\n\nIt would SEEM that the brothers and sisters would have to marry each other (ick), since the Bible says this is the only family on Earth.\n\nOf course, when Cain murdered Abel, the Bible also says that he went off to live with people in the land of Nod . . . so where did those people come from?!?!\n\nWhat?  The Bible internally inconsistent?!?!?  Shocking!!!
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Some one asked a very similar question to yours a couple of days ago, questioning where Cain "found" his wife, however the so called "scholars" answered with the following :\n\n\n1. He married his sister\n2. There were other people on earth before God created Adam & Eve (which insinuates that some of us are not descendents of Adam & Eve and are therefore not created by God)\n3. The story is just metaphorical.\n\nThere are many other variations to the story and no "one" common belief among the biblical scholars. Which just goes to show that the story is not true. How could it be when the first form of written communication took place thousands of years after the Adam and Eve era? That would mean that the "story" was verbally communicated from generation to generation until it could be documented.
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Adam and Eve were created perfect in every way. Their children would also, no doubt, be born physically and genetically perfect. Therefore, Cain's wife could be one of his sisters with no problems. Likewise, many of Adam and Eve's children would have inter-married with no problems. \n"None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness. " (Leviticus 18:6).\nGod does not condone near-relative marriages. Had God's command to Israel been given to Adam and Eve, and they and their children all obeyed it, mankind would have quickly died out. God, therefore, had to temporarily allow intra-family marriages to increase his earthly family. \n By the time of the flood severe genetic weaknesses had likely set in, making close-kin marriages impractical, so after the flood God reduced the life span of mankind to seventy years. This would prevent another population explosion of the pre-flood magnitude. (Mathematicians have calculated a billion people may have died in the flood.)\nOne might wonder why genetic weaknesses set in. It's obvious Cain didn't care about God's law, else he would not have murdered his brother (Genesis 4:8; Exodus 20:13). If he disobeyed God in this matter, he likely disobeyed God in matters of diet (Leviticus 11; Deuteronomy 14), and ate whatever pleased him.
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Actually, you are incorrect that Adam and Eve only had two kids. We know the names of three of them (Cain, Abel, and Seth) but there were more. And yes, there were relationships between siblings, hence, wives for Cain and Seth. (Abel died single.) You will find familial intermarrying throughout much of Genesis because (as you point out) there wasn't anyone else. Consider also after the flood that familial intermarrying would have been the only option.
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This Scriptural passage discusses three from among the first offspring of Adam and Eve. We know that Adam and Even also had other offspring.\n(Genesis 5:4) And the days of Adam after his fathering Seth came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters. \n\nClearly, Cain's wife was either a sister or niece of his from among Adam and Eve's other offspring. There is nothing in this passage on which to base the idea that Cain's wife was of a race of mankind different from Adam and Eve. Similarly, there is nothing in this passage on which to base the idea that Cain was of a particular race or that his "sign" was anything more than a public proclamation by God.\n\nSince all of mankind was wiped out by the Noachian flood, none of the names in Genesis chapter 4 can relate to post-flood nations.
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The answer by Temp19 was going well but stumbled.  Please allow me to add to it.  Cain married a sister most likely, but definitely a member of his own family. Once Adam and Eve sinned, they "began to die."  The people who were supposed to live forever now were subject to aging, disease etc.  After many generations this sinfulness deteriorated the bodies to the point that God commanded Moses to instruct family members NOT to marry.  The two creations are not inconsistent with one another.  There is a story of creation of the world (macro version if you will) and the focus of the creation of Adam and Eve (micro version if you will allow).  Hope this helps.
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Where did Cain get his wife? Adam “became father to sons and daughters.” (Genesis 5:4) So Cain took one of his sisters or perhaps one of his nieces as a wife. Later, God’s Law to the Israelites did not permit the marriage of a fleshly brother and sister.—Leviticus 18:9.\n\nOne might think that after the murder of Abel, only his guilty brother Cain and their parents, Adam and Eve, were left on the earth. However, Adam and Eve had a large family. According to Genesis 5:3, 4, Adam had a son named Seth. The account adds: “The days of Adam after his fathering Seth came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters.” So Cain married his sister or perhaps one of his nieces. Since mankind was then so close to human perfection, such a marriage evidently did not pose the health risks that may imperil the offspring of such a union today.\n\nAdam was cast out of Eden into an unsubdued earth that was cursed to produce thorns and thistles, there to sweat out an existence, harvesting the bitter fruits of his sin. Outside the garden, awaiting death, Adam fathered sons and daughters, the names of only three being preserved—Cain, Abel, and Seth. To all of his children Adam passed on hereditary sin and death, since he himself was sinful.—Ge 3:23; 4:1, 2, 25.\n\nConsider, for example, the often-raised problem about Cain’s wife. At Genesis 4:1, 2 we read: “In time [Eve] gave birth to Cain and said: ‘I have produced a man with the aid of Jehovah.’ Later she again gave birth, to his brother Abel.” As is well known, Cain killed Abel; but after that, we read that Cain had a wife and children. (Genesis 4:17) If Adam and Eve had only two sons, where did Cain find his wife?\n\nThe solution lies in the fact that Adam and Eve had more than two children. According to the context, they had a large family. At Genesis 5:3 we read that Adam became father to another son named Seth and then, in the following verse, we read: “He became father to sons and daughters.” (Genesis 5:4) So Cain could have married one of his sisters or even one of his nieces. At that early stage of human history, when mankind was so close to perfection, such a marriage evidently did not pose the risks for the children of the union that it would today.\n\n\nSeth may not have been the third child of Adam and Eve. According to Genesis 5:4, Adam had “sons and daughters,” some of whom may have been born before Seth. Seth is worthy of note because Noah, and through him the present-day race of mankind, descended from him, not from the murderous Cain. At the age of 105 years Seth became father to Enosh. Seth died at the age of 912 years.
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Her name was Lilith.  I believe, but might be wrong, that it is a hebrew origin.  She was suppose to be Adams first wife, make from the earth.  She wouldn't submit or be subserviant to Adam so god cast her out of the garden of eden.  He then made eve from adams rib.  Alot of things have been said about her like she became a demon, a vampire, evil, etc.  Just go to any major search engine and look her up, the variety of legands are great reading!
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Who did Cain marry? And why did he live in a city, instead of a small farm?
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Adam and Eve lived hundreds of years. By the time Cain and Abel took wives there were sisters, cousins and second cousins all over the place. Remember, there was no TV yet.
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I believe that Cain married from the lineage of Adam and Eve from those children Adam begat prior to Cain being cast out (Gen.4:16, Gen.5:3 below).\n\nAdam “begat sons and daughters” (Gen.5:4 below).  Genesis 5:4’s end statement says that that is what Adam did; he begat sons and daughters.\n\nI believe Adam begat sons and daughters from the births of Cain and Abel throughout the one hundred thirty years prior to the birth of Seth (Gen.4:25 below).\n\n\nGen.4:16And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.\n\nGen.4:25 And Adam knew his wife again (Gen.5:3 below); and she bare a son, and called his name Seth (Gen.5:3 below): For God, [said she], hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.\n\nGen.5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth (Gen.4:25 above):\n\nGen.5:4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:\n\n\n\nPat (ndbpsa ©)
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Cain.\n\nKilled Abel when there were only four people.