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Cains Wife
06:14, 2007-Sep-17
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Someone put the question to me this weekend, Where did Cain get his wife?
In the book of Genesis It lists Cain and Abel as the first two children of Adam and Eve but it says they had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 4 does not say how old Cain and Abel were when Abel was killed nor does it say how many other sons and daughters Adam and Eve had , at that time the Law had not yet been given to man so marriage between brothers and sisters was no a sin.
The human blood line was strong and it took generations for marriage betweeen siblings to become genetically harmful. But since we don't know how old cain and Abel were Cains wife could have been a sister or a neice.
We do know that Seth was born to Adam and Eve When Adam was 130 years old and that when this child was born , Eve said he was a gift from God to replace Abel who Cain slew.
One could argue that Abels death could have been around the time of Seths conception, in which case Adam and Eve could have had numerous sons and daughters over a period of 130 years .
Their children could have had children and their children had children,possibly as many as 6-7 generations of children could have been born by then , so Cains wife may not necessarily have been a sibling but possibly a neice or great niece or great, great niece even.
Even if you used a 120 year time span and each child waited until they reached the age of 20 to have a child of their own, you could easily have six generations from Adam and Eves older children by the time Seth was born .
So if Abels death was even close to the time of Seths conception, there would have been plenty of women on the earth for Cain to find a wife.
While we don't know for sure if it was a sibling,niece, or great niece Cain married , we do know that while Adam ,Eve, Cain and Abel were the first four people on the earth , they were not the only four people on the earth by the time Cain slew his brother Abel and Cain went off into the Land of Nod(wandering) and found a wife.
In the book of Genesis It lists Cain and Abel as the first two children of Adam and Eve but it says they had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 4 does not say how old Cain and Abel were when Abel was killed nor does it say how many other sons and daughters Adam and Eve had , at that time the Law had not yet been given to man so marriage between brothers and sisters was no a sin.
The human blood line was strong and it took generations for marriage betweeen siblings to become genetically harmful. But since we don't know how old cain and Abel were Cains wife could have been a sister or a neice.
We do know that Seth was born to Adam and Eve When Adam was 130 years old and that when this child was born , Eve said he was a gift from God to replace Abel who Cain slew.
One could argue that Abels death could have been around the time of Seths conception, in which case Adam and Eve could have had numerous sons and daughters over a period of 130 years .
Their children could have had children and their children had children,possibly as many as 6-7 generations of children could have been born by then , so Cains wife may not necessarily have been a sibling but possibly a neice or great niece or great, great niece even.
Even if you used a 120 year time span and each child waited until they reached the age of 20 to have a child of their own, you could easily have six generations from Adam and Eves older children by the time Seth was born .
So if Abels death was even close to the time of Seths conception, there would have been plenty of women on the earth for Cain to find a wife.
While we don't know for sure if it was a sibling,niece, or great niece Cain married , we do know that while Adam ,Eve, Cain and Abel were the first four people on the earth , they were not the only four people on the earth by the time Cain slew his brother Abel and Cain went off into the Land of Nod(wandering) and found a wife.
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