Who did Cain Marry

[Shinka]

Where did this Woman come from that Cain married in Genesis. I don't understand...Please help

Genesis Ch 4
13 Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."

15 But the LORD said to him, "Not so ; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod, [v] 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. 18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.

 

[Sweet C]

His sister

 

[Belle Du Jour]

Genesis is definitely kind of vague on who the first people were marrying. I would assume a sister or cousin. Unless God made more people directly from clay (which I don't think the Bible says).

 

[NewYorkgyrl]

Most people believe that it was his sister. One person once told me that she was not related to him and that God did make other people other than Adam and Eve. (I don't believe that one)

 

[DragonPearl]

It's one of those Bible mysteries.

Just goes to show that the Bible does not tell you EVERYTHING.

 

[Vintagecoilylocks]

He married a sister or neice.

Adam live for several hundreds of years. The life span slowly tapered off after the exist from the Garden.
Cain , Able and Seth were not his only children, just the ones that we needed to know.
He had been commisioned by God to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. Genesis 1:28.

 

[JuJuBoo]

His sister or neice.

 

[LuvLiLocks]

His sister as far as I know.

 

[Tamsin2005]

It's not a mystery since there was no one else around to marry but relatives through his parents, Adam and Eve. His wife would have been his sister or niece. This sounds offensive in today's view but part of our current taboo on these kinds of close relationships has to do with the "layering on" of the many mistakes we now have in our DNA (part of the many consequences of the fall). It is far better to marry a distant relative (we are all related through Adam and Noah) than a close relative (your 1st cousin for example) because your cousin is far more likely to have the same mistakes you have genetically speaking, thus increasing the chances of fatal deformities.

 

[Starian]

It was his sister.

 

[Starian]

For further clarification:

"When God created Adam and Eve in perfection, his purpose was that all humankind come from one man, hence be related in the flesh—all one family. (Gen. 1:28) Adam named his wife Eve, meaning "Living one," "because," the Bible records, "she had to become the mother of everyone living."—Gen. 3:20.
Consequently, for everyone to come from Adam and Eve, it is obvious that at least one man had to marry his sister. Cain, the first one of Adam’s sons reported to be married, very likely did so. Abel and Seth may have married their sisters, or nieces, for Adam had other sons and daughters, who, in turn, had children. (Gen. 5:3, 4) There was very little danger then of marked deformities being brought forth in the children, because the human race was much closer to perfection than now. Few bad genes (either "recessive" or "dominant") would exist. The vigor of the early descendants of Adam is demonstrated in the longevity of men in those days, one reported as living 969 years.—Gen. 5:27."