where did Cain's wife come from?

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I also personally believe that Eve had a daughter or perhaps many daughters before Cain and Abel based on Gen. 4:1 "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord." I do believe that this verse may indicate that daughters were perhaps born before this; hence, special emphasis upon getting a man child at this time.

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Also, in 4:3 it is quite clear that a process of time had taken place thus giving Adam and Eve many years to have daughters, and if you add possible daughters from before Cain, then we would have many women for Cain(100 yrs. old) to take one as a wife, by the time we get to v16.

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Very good, Paul. It had to be his sister. There's no other explanation, imo.
1. Likely the first children would be such that inter-family marriage would not be a genetic problem.
2. In scripture only the males are generally recorded.[This message has been edited by buzsaw, 06-14-2003]

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There are many women recorded in the Bible, you even mentioned one by name in this post.

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There are also four women recorded in the fictional genealogy of Jesus' found in Matthew's Gospel. Although these women are recorded in Matthew, lineage does not come through any of them,a bit of a bummer for the Davidic bloodline of course.

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Go through the geneologies of the OT and you'll see what I mean. Mostly men with a few notable women mentioned as the wives or other relation of the men in those geneologies.