who did Cain get married to?

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The Bible recorded that after Cain killed his brother, and the Lord cursed him and put a mark on him so no one would kill him, that he departed and later got married. Now my question is, if Cain and Abel were the first children and Adam and Eve were God's first creation, where did Cain get the woman he got married to? Shalom!
 

Chris1975

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The Bible recorded that after Cain killed his brother, and the Lord cursed him and put a mark on him so no one would kill him, that he departed and later got married. Now my question is, if Cain and Abel were the first children and Adam and Eve were God's first creation, where did Cain get the woman he got married to? Shalom!
His sister or sisters.

Genesis 5v4
 

trofimus

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The Bible recorded that after Cain killed his brother, and the Lord cursed him and put a mark on him so no one would kill him, that he departed and later got married. Now my question is, if Cain and Abel were the first children and Adam and Eve were God's first creation, where did Cain get the woman he got married to? Shalom!
Biblical genealogies are not complete, they are just for specific lines and important patriarchs information. Thats also why you get a nonsense dating if you just sum the age of people mentioned in them.

So there were many women and men not mentioned in them. She could be his sister, or somebody younger, Cain lived for a long time, many generations were born during his life.
 

valiant

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The Bible recorded that after Cain killed his brother, and the Lord cursed him and put a mark on him so no one would kill him, that he departed and later got married. Now my question is, if Cain and Abel were the first children and Adam and Eve were God's first creation, where did Cain get the woman he got married to? Shalom!
In the beginning when there was one family and the line was pure and uncomplicated there was only a possibility of marriage to a sister. Thus he married one of the daughter of Adam, either by force, or because she was willing to go with him.

We do not know if Cain was the firstborn of Adam. He is simply the first mentioned, because of his sin. Possibly there were brothers and sisters before him. But there was plenty of time before Cain murdered his brother for others to be born and be mature enough to make good wives.

By the time of Abraham men could still marry their half sisters. It was only later that it was totally forbidden.
 

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The Bible recorded that after Cain killed his brother, and the Lord cursed him and put a mark on him so no one would kill him, that he departed and later got married. Now my question is, if Cain and Abel were the first children and Adam and Eve were God's first creation, where did Cain get the woman he got married to? Shalom!
This is a mystery to me, but I think that we don't need to have all the answers. The Bible as a whole is wonderful enough for me to believe that it was inspired by God.
 
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The Bible recorded that after Cain killed his brother, and the Lord cursed him and put a mark on him so no one would kill him, that he departed and later got married. Now my question is, if Cain and Abel were the first children and Adam and Eve were God's first creation, where did Cain get the woman he got married to? Shalom!
His sister or sisters.

Genesis 5v4
That is one wild leap some of us hope to make..... considering that God has never been too keen on incest.
 
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This is a mystery to me, but I think that we don't need to have all the answers. The Bible as a whole is wonderful enough for me to believe that it was inspired by God.
That is one of the most reasonable and truly Christian perspectives we can have about many things in the Bible.
 
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The Bible recorded that after Cain killed his brother, and the Lord cursed him and put a mark on him so no one would kill him, that he departed and later got married. Now my question is, if Cain and Abel were the first children and Adam and Eve were God's first creation, where did Cain get the woman he got married to? Shalom!
It is interesting that most of us try to ignore that part about Cain DEPARTING. Were all these other brothers and sisters of his already living out there in the wilderness somewhere? How and why did they get sent there... since Cain was banished from the area of his parent's homeland strictly as punishment?
 

bluto

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That is one wild leap some of us hope to make..... considering that God has never been too keen on incest.
Actually as it was explained to me many years ago that marrying brother and sisters were how the earth orginally started to get populated. There was no "incest" at that time because our original parents were relatively pure in their genes and then as sinned later grew and became more perverted are genes became more cursed. Plus the fact that intermarriage was not given until the time of Moses at Leviticus 18:6. There is also one more little tid bit and that is that Abraham married his half sister and God did not condemn Abraham. Does this make sense? :eek:

IN GOD THE SON,
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Actually as it was explained to me many years ago that marrying brother and sisters were how the earth orginally started to get populated. There was no "incest" at that time because our original parents were relatively pure in their genes and then as sinned later grew and became more perverted are genes became more cursed. Plus the fact that intermarriage was not given until the time of Moses at Leviticus 18:6. There is also one more little tid bit and that is that Abraham married his half sister and God did not condemn Abraham. Does this make sense? :eek:

IN GOD THE SON,
bluto
Abraham also lied and allowed another man to take his own wife as his wife. Don't kid yourself that that marriage wasn't consummated. And he got rich off that deception. Not to mention several other questionable things he did. Abe was no choir boy. His daddy even manufactured idols for worship in pagan rituals.

Of course you were "explained" about incest being OK back in those days. We all were told the validity of that theory. But, that is ALL it is, a theory. Actually, it was just a "hypothesis" back then, since it was never questioned.
 
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In the beginning when there was one family and the line was pure and uncomplicated there was only a possibility of marriage to a sister. Thus he married one of the daughter of Adam, either by force, or because she was willing to go with him.

We do not know if Cain was the firstborn of Adam. He is simply the first mentioned, because of his sin. Possibly there were brothers and sisters before him. But there was plenty of time before Cain murdered his brother for others to be born and be mature enough to make good wives.

By the time of Abraham men could still marry their half sisters. It was only later that it was totally forbidden.
Technically speaking, the choices weren't merely sisters. Adam and Eve were having kids for 500+ years. Cain could have married his niece. We have no idea how old he was by then. For all we know Abel's daughters could have been of age. And even if the only choices were Adam and Eve's kids, Abel's kids or Cain's kids, as far as who to mate with, give it 200 years of child bearing, it could well be that their kids were coming of age to be parents and/or grandparents. Guaranteed that many people would have to start spreading out for hunting and gathering purposes fairly quickly.

Take it to the UK. If a couple had 500+ kids in that many years, and their kids lived about as long as the parents, exactly how long do you think it would take to populated the UK with all those descendants doing what comes naturally -- having their own kids?

After all, Adam died just a few decades before Noah was born.
 
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That is one wild leap some of us hope to make..... considering that God has never been too keen on incest.
Never? Than what is the other choice? Marry an animal?

The "wild leap" is saying, "considering that God has never been too keen on incest."
 

valiant

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It is interesting that most of us try to ignore that part about Cain DEPARTING. Were all these other brothers and sisters of his already living out there in the wilderness somewhere? How and why did they get sent there... since Cain was banished from the area of his parent's homeland strictly as punishment?
Cain was still in contact with his brothers and sisters or why was he afraid they would exact bold vengeance upon him? He may well have already been married. But even if he wasn't his needs would drive him to seek a wife by force and take her to live in the desert.

In the early days men had to marry their sisters. There was no one else. It only gradually became forbidden. Abraham married his half sister.
 

valiant

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Technically speaking, the choices weren't merely sisters. Adam and Eve were having kids for 500+ years. Cain could have married his niece. We have no idea how old he was by then. For all we know Abel's daughters could have been of age. And even if the only choices were Adam and Eve's kids, Abel's kids or Cain's kids, as far as who to mate with, give it 200 years of child bearing, it could well be that their kids were coming of age to be parents and/or grandparents. Guaranteed that many people would have to start spreading out for hunting and gathering purposes fairly quickly.

Take it to the UK. If a couple had 500+ kids in that many years, and their kids lived about as long as the parents, exactly how long do you think it would take to populated the UK with all those descendants doing what comes naturally -- having their own kids?

After all, Adam died just a few decades before Noah was born.
Someone had to marry a sister to start off with, or there wold have been no children. Alternately they would have to cohabit with Eve LOL
 
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It is interesting that most of us try to ignore that part about Cain DEPARTING. Were all these other brothers and sisters of his already living out there in the wilderness somewhere? How and why did they get sent there... since Cain was banished from the area of his parent's homeland strictly as punishment?
Do you know why George Washington's troops were starving at Valley Forge that winter? It's only 25 miles from the then-city of Philadelphia. Because a few hundred British troops were settled there right before Washington's troops arrived, AND because they destroyed their food reserves before leaving. Washington's troops wiped out what was left of the wild animals and domesticated animals before winter even came.

YES! You really cannot keep a few thousand people in one small area and expect them to live off that land. The land can't sustain that many mouths for all that long. So, of course The family spread out quickly. Abundant food across the region, but not in one small area over the course of centuries.
 
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Someone had to marry a sister to start off with, or there wold have been no children. Alternately they would have to cohabit with Eve LOL
Actually, Eve was over 130 years old before she became Mom the first time. I suspect Cain did marry a sister, but given how old they got before they even started mating, it is not inconceivable he could have held off on marriage, (you know, because 130 is way too young to have kids, so wait until you're 300 lol), and ended up marrying one of Abel's daughters.
 

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I would say his wife
 
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Well, since he had kids, I would guess a woman?