It appears to me that there were two creation scenarios: In Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. Could this explain that Cain took a wife from the first creation in Chapter 1 in the land of Nod?
Genesis 3:20. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the ""MOTHER OF ALL LIVING.""
It's apparent Cain wife was either his sister or niece.
God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and MULTIPLY.
Which seems to imply the world wasn't multiplied.
Adam and Eve probably had a thousand kids Men and Women..
Genesis 4:16-17. And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
The scripture doesn't say Cain took a wife "from" Nod. It says he went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod, Adam and Eve could have been 100's of years old and their children children had kids, Perhaps he may have been married before he slew Abel and he brought over a wife to Nod.
I can go on and on!
You see we can speculate and go on and on about what we don't know but that don't change what we do know.
And that's Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the ""MOTHER OF ALL LIVING.""
You are unfortunately speculating something, which with all due respect, I beg to disagree as the Bible does not specify that Adam and Eve bore daughters before Seth came along. Remember the basic principle in a law. "If it does not specify, we ought not to specify and therefore does not allow us to speculate or even guess unless it is implicit. Does it make sense or not? Look at the first creation in Genesis Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 and see the implication between these two creation scenarios. What does the word say, about the condition of the environment then compared in Chapter 2? How the peculiarities of how the order of living things were created then? How do we explain those discrepancies? Thanks, for your interest to my curiosity. Take care!
Your comment struck me as interesting, because you started this discussion by you asking a question speculating where Cain's wife came from. But here it seems you're now being critical of people for trying to help by answering your question- which you now call speculation. Your original question is speculative. God bless.
The Bible does not speculate where Cain got his wife.
The Bible says that Adam and Eve had many children.
Genesis 5:4 "And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat SONS AND DAUGHTERS:"
Obviously, one of those daughters eventually met up with Cain and they got married. God permitted that at the beginning of creation and since man was still close to Adamic perfection, this did not cause birth abnormalities. It is the only way that humans, at the beginning, would have been able to procreate - they had to marry their bother or sister.
In fact, we do the very same thing today, really. We are 1 large human family and we all have Adam as our father. When we marry a fellow human being, we are really marrying our brother or sister.
Cain got his wife from Adam amd Eve.
Genesis 3:20. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the ""MOTHER OF ALL LIVING.""
It's apparent Cain wife was either his sister or niece.
God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and MULTIPLY.
Which seems to imply the world wasn't multiplied.
Adam and Eve probably had a thousand kids Men and Women..
Genesis 4:16-17. And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
The scripture doesn't say Cain took a wife "from" Nod. It says he went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod, Adam and Eve could have been 100's of years old and their children children had kids, Perhaps he may have been married before he slew Abel and he brought over a wife to Nod.
I can go on and on!
You see we can speculate and go on and on about what we don't know but that don't change what we do know.
And that's Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the ""MOTHER OF ALL LIVING.""
God bless.
Your comment struck me as interesting, because you started this discussion by you asking a question speculating where Cain's wife came from. But here it seems you're now being critical of people for trying to help by answering your question- which you now call speculation. Your original question is speculative. God bless.
The Bible says that Adam and Eve had many children.
Genesis 5:4 "And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat SONS AND DAUGHTERS:"
Obviously, one of those daughters eventually met up with Cain and they got married. God permitted that at the beginning of creation and since man was still close to Adamic perfection, this did not cause birth abnormalities. It is the only way that humans, at the beginning, would have been able to procreate - they had to marry their bother or sister.
In fact, we do the very same thing today, really. We are 1 large human family and we all have Adam as our father. When we marry a fellow human being, we are really marrying our brother or sister.
Kindly.
Good day.
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