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Where did
Cain get his wife?
Genesis 4:17
- (Gen.
4:17) - "Then Cain went out from the presence of the Lord,
and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. 17And Cain had
relations with his wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch; and he
built a city, and called the name of the city Enoch, after the name of his
son," (NASB).
We see in the
Bible in Genesis 3 where Adam and
Eve were cursed and sent out of the Garden of Eden. In
Genesis 4, Cain kills Abel.
In Genesis 4:17 above we see
that Cain had relations with his wife. Where did he get his wife?
The answer is simple. Cain married one of his sisters.
Genesis 5:4
says, "Then the days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were
eight hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters." We see
that Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters. The genetic lineage of
Adam and Eve was perfect so marrying a sister wasn't going to cause birth
defects. It wasn't until much later, during the time of Moses, that
incest was forbidden as the genetic pool became less and less able to stand
interbreeding. "‘No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual
relations. I am the LORD," (Lev.
18:6).
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