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[ArchyMoses]

So my neighbor before asked me. How did Cain and Able marry? It says they both took wives.
.I said I guess they’re sister …incest…and the guy said thought so…

Wrong answer huh…
.so maybe Adam and Eve were one couple the first, very first couple and God could of made, of course he could …made other couples not blood related…

Agree with that?
Peace

 

[Elf01]

Catholic teaching is that every human being apart from Adam and Eve is descended from them so it didn’t happen that way. We know that Abraham married Sarah, his half sister so I consider incest the most likely scenario.

Another possibility is that they married biological humans (i.e.identically biological but without souls) and their offspring were given souls. Science seems to support this as there is no genetic bottleneck.

 

[blanchardman]

Able probably never married. Cain married a daughter of Nod.
Who Nod was or how he came to be we are not told.

 

[midori]

Nod is a place. So a “daughter of Nod” is going to be a woman from the “land of Nod”.

“Nod” is the Hebrew root for wandering and has connotations of restlessness and trembling

“Nod” (נוד‬) is the Hebrew root of the verb “to wander” (לנדוד‬). Therefore, to dwell in the land of Nod can mean to live a wandering life.

If you look at your Josephus, it sez that Jewish tradition states:

The number of Adam’s children, as says the old tradition was thirty-three sons, and twenty-three daughters.

You can read ch. 2 of Josephus to get the full account, the way the Jewish people circulated it around the year AD 93.

 

[evangelical]

Yes that’s one way to look at it!!!

 

[blanchardman]

Genesis 4:16&17
Cain goes to the land of Nod then takes his wife.

 

[midori]

16 Cain then left the Lord’s presence and settled in the land of Nod,[h] east of Eden.

Descendants of Cain and Seth.
17 Cain had intercourse with his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. Cain also became the founder of a city, which he named after his son Enoch. 18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad became the father of Mehujael; Mehujael became the father of Methusael, and Methusael became the father of Lamech.

h. 4:16 The land of Nod: a symbolic name (derived from the verb nûd, to wander) rather than a definite geographic region.