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Jan 31, 2024 · The identity of Cain’s wife has long troubled Christians. David Instone-Brewer proposes a new way of thinking about the problem. It’s a question often accompanied by a smug smile: “So who did Cain marry?” If the reply is: “His sister,” the usual response is: “That’s immoral!”
Feb 24, 2024 · The Bible gives limited details on the name and character of Cain’s wife. The only mention of Cain’s wife is in Genesis 4:17, where Cain and his wife had a son. They soon named a city after their son. The Bible does say that Adam and Eve had other children besides Cain and Abel (Genesis 5:4).
Nov 12, 2020 · “Where did Cain get his wife?” is an old question, sometimes considered unanswerable by the skeptics. If one takes the early chapters of Genesis literally, it is supposed that Adam and Eve, and their two sons, Cain and Abel, were the only four people on earth.
The sudden appearance of Cain’s wife makes one wonder where she came from. Some have suggested that God made other people, but is this consistent with what the Bible teaches? In Genesis 3:20, the Bible says, “And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.”That means that every person who ever lived was ...
Oct 27, 2014 · The famous biblical story of Cain, history’s first murderer, includes this old Bible head-scratcher about who his wife could have been. Genesis 4 tells of Cain’s birth, agricultural vocation...
The Bible provides us very little information about Cain's wife. We can infer than she was one of Adam and Eve's other children.
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By Mary Joan Winn Leith. Who was Cain’s wife? The Bible reports only that after killing Abel, “Cain went away from the presence of the Lord, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch” (Genesis 4:16–17).
