Where did Cain's wife come from?-a puzzle from Bible?
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Often, apparent inconsistencies can be resolved if we just look at the context. Consider, for example, the often-raised problem about Cain’s wife. 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\nWhere did Cain get his wife? Is there a logical Bible answer?\n\nYes, there is. It is pointed to in the very instructions given to Adam and Eve shortly after their creation, namely: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it.”—Gen. 1:28.\n\nObedience to this command would require that Adam and Eve have children. Then these children, in turn, would marry and bear children. This process of reproduction by succeeding generations would need to continue in order to fill the earth in harmony with God’s purpose.\n\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.
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The correct answer IS no one.  However, I understand where your confusion comes from.  In Genesis 1 we read an overview of the entire creation.  In verse 27 we see that God created man and woman, but are not given any names.  However, this doesn’t mean that they are not Adam and Eve.  The end of chapter 1 concludes the brief account, or summary if you will, of creation, and chapter 2 then elaborates on some important details.  These include how God created man and woman and their names.  Chapter 2 verse 7 describes the creation of Adam, but we know that it is an elaboration on the creation of man given in 1:27, because in 2:5 it specifically says that there was no man on the earth.  \n\nHope that clears it up a little.\n\n_______________  EDIT _______________\n\nTo James,\n\nI'm afraid you are mistaken about the meaning of the word "man" as it applies to Genesis 1 and 2.  I encourage you to look at the original Hebrew words as it makes it clearer that both chapters refer to the same "man".  It is understandable that some confusion is introduced when translating into English, so it is helpful to look at the original words to determine their meaning both individually and in the context of the surrounding scripture.  For example, the word for "man" is the exact same Hebrew word in both chapter 1 and 2, AND it is essentially the same word as the man's name! ADAM!  And it is a form that is used much more often as a singular form, while a different word (Alef + Yod + Shin) is used more often to indicate MEN - plural.  The word in Genesis 1 & 2 in Hebrew is Alef + Dalet + Mem.  \n\nCheck it our more for yourself -- you'll be surprised how consistent it is with the rest of the Bible's idea that Adam WAS the first man!
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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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I am no Bible expert but here goes....\n\nThey say that Adam and Eve were the first humans created, no where does it say they where the only ones created, think about that, if that were so would we all not be the offsping of incest?\n\nAs the people spread accross the world the people adapted and evolved over thousands of years to deal with their environments, including darker skin pigmentations to protect themselves from the sun.
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If you read your bible carefully, you'll find out that Adam and Eve had a LOT more than 3 kids. Check out Genesis 5:4\n     "After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters."\n\nThis is mentioned after Cain finding his wife, but Chapter 5 isn't really a part of the timeline.. it's more a study of Adam's family, so it seems likely that Cain simply married one of his sisters.
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I think these were probably descendents of Adam and Eve. That means when Cain married that women it was probably his sister. I don't know how it works but I guess we just have to trust in God. (you know who knows how old cain and able were when cain killed him, maybe plenty of time for Adam and Eve to have more kids; also people back then tended to marry very fast so there were marriages and children poppin all over the place!) Hope I made a little sense! God Bless
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Genesis 3:20 Adam named his wife Eve (Eve probably means  living), because she would become the mother of all the living.\n\nThat rules out any other 'original' mother.  You can decide to believe what you want, I think it's always better to have some evidence for what you believe rather than pulling it totally out of the air.  The Bible gives absolutely no indication of any other people created by God.  Adam and Ever were to be the parents of all the races to come.
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lilith? where in the bible does this name appear?
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Wow, your question was confusing, I had to re-read it a few times. But, it's not a dumb question and I dont think it was a mean spirited question. Adam was the first man, fashioned from the dust and the breath of God in the image of God. Eve was the first woman made of Adams rib and the breath of God. They had children, namely 3 sons, Cain, Able, and Seth. So if you keep reading the bible from there, there are geneologies and you can see who begat whom on down the line. Long after Adam and many of his descendants had died, from the lineage of King David, a woman named Mary was bethrothed to a man named Joseph. Mary was indeed a virgin as she was not yet married. The Angel of the Lord came to her and told her that she was pregnant with our Savior, the Son of God.  What a daunting message, but God prepared for her just the right fiance, who loved her enough that at this seemingly crazy tale that he decided to preserve her life, her honor and put her away in secret. Well, the Angel of the Lord came to Joseph too, and told him that it is true, the baby is God's and your fiance's still a virgin (to paraphrase) If you read the Bible you'll get a more detailed version of this piece of History. The Baby Jesus grew to be a Man, all His life Jesus was close to God, His Father and prayed to him, because God is 3 persons, The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. So, although Jesus is very much God, He is the Son of the Father. So, that is why Jesus is completely perfect and had no sin, and was able to sacrifice himself for us. At that moment when Jesus asked the Father "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do" He was extending that same grace to us too, even now. Jesus did not escape crucifixion, he did not escape death. He conquered death, he conquered the old law of the old testament that said there must be a sacrifice, a blood atonement for all sins. We were all born into sin because of Adam and Eve chosing to follow thier flesh and give in to temptation. We were permanantly severed from God, and still are if we dont believe that Jesus is God made flesh, and is God's Son. We must believe that and believe that Jesus did die that day on the cross, that he laid in a tomb dead, but was resurrected on the 3rd Day and that he ascended into heaven very much alive and there he sits at the right hand of the father, leaving The Holy Spirit ever interceding for us. That is the truth and the only way to be allowed into God's presence upon our death here on Earth. There is no blaspemy in that. Jesus was brought to trial for that, because he in no uncertain terms claimed his rightful title as The Son of God. He was found faultless by Pilate, however, the crowd shouted "Crucify Him" and took a foul murderer to be released and the mob sentanced thier own King thier own Savior to die. But, it was what had to be done. Jesus said before his crucifixion, "No one takes my life, I willingly lay it down".
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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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She came from the next valley, I think it was called the Valley of Vosgo.  \n\nDon't make the mistake of thinking Adam and Eve and their kids were the only ones around.  When God was making Adam and Eve, he was over in the next valley making Mick and Irma and their kids, and not long after he was in another area making Jess and Bess and their kids.  \n\nThe Bible only talks about Adam and Eve cause they are the ones whence proceeded the line that involved Abraham and his ilk.\n\nAbraham had wives and concubines and lived to a ripe old age.  Then came Isaac who was rather large and half blind, and recognized people by feeling their faces.  \n\nAnything else you want to know?
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God started by creating Adam and Eve who were the first to begin procreating. They were having sons who were marrying wives after settling in other areas. Nowhere does it say Adam and Eve were the ONLY humans God created. He created wives for Adam and Eve's Sons.\nWhat you're suggesting makes no sense. If any human or animal or creature attempts to mate with the wrong species, even if successful at it, the progeny end up sterile.\nIt's pretty clear from Genesis Chapters 4 and 5 that Eve was not mating with her sons.\n***\nAs for the sister theory it doesn't work either because Genesis gives a sequential account of who Eve was giving birth to. There were no sisters yet for Cain.\n***\nI'm using a New American Standard version which is considered the to be the most scholarly accurate as far as I know and it's a bit different from what you wrote:\n5:1 - This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.\n2 - He created THEM male and female, and he blessed them and named THEM Man in the day when they were created.\n\nThere is no account of incest of any kind. God created wives for Adam's sons separately.
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We had this read at our wedding. It's from Genisis, chapter 2\n\n 18 The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." \n\n 19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. \n      But for Adam [h] no suitable helper was found. 21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs [i] and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib [j] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. \n\n 23 The man said, \n       "This is now bone of my bones \n       and flesh of my flesh; \n       she shall be called 'woman, [k] ' \n       for she was taken out of man." \n\n 24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. \n\n \nI think verse 24 is what you're looking for.
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Adam lived 930 years (Gen 5:5)\n\nThey did not meet any people after the expulsion.  If you are refering to Cain "knowing" his wife after he was sent away.  "know" is a euphemism used in the Bible for having sex.  He already had a wife and probably children when he left.  His wife being one of his sisters or cousins.  \n\nFor more clarification visit this site.\n\nhttp://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/tools/cains_wife.asp
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That is true.\n\nTo j_d_barrow:\n\nWhat the hell are you going on about? Adam and Eve were also taken from an earlier Pagan religion. "The first people on earth" HA HA HA!\n\nWho lived in Nod where Cain got his wife? \n\nYou Christians really have to start asking yourself some questions. Your whole religion is fake, even your Messiah cannot be proven to exist and is very similar to the Pagan God (Osiris), by the way the Caesar that lived the same time as "Jesus" have records, Jesus has none...\n\nWhat about the Trinity...Pagan's and Hindus have a Trinity that Predates Christianity?\n\nBut, you guys have the only "right path", hey?
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reverse evolution\n\nit began with cain
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One 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.