Who was Cains wife?

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I assume this has been asked before but the book of Genesis seems to skip forward on facts that we are left wondering about. Another is Joseph’s wife at the end of Genesis. In the non canonical book of Jubilees it claims it was a daughter of Seth but Genesis just makes it seem like she just appeared out of nowhere. Does the church have an accepted stance on this?
 
I had thought Eve had many sons and daughters, and Cain’s wife would have had to have been one of his own sisters. If we’ve truly all come from the first Man and the first Woman, then from the beginning there would have had to have been inbreeding, and God would have designed it that way. Then, as time went on, the inbreeding wasn’t so closely related and became more and more distant. Really, though, when you stop and think about it, we’re all related, whether closely or very, very distantly. We must be, right?
 
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I had thought Eve had many sons and daughters, and Cain’s wife would have had to have been one of his own sisters. If we’ve truly all come from the first Man and the first Woman, then from the beginning there would have had to have been inbreeding, and God would have designed it that way. Then, as time went on, the inbreeding wasn’t so closely related and became more and more distant. Really, though, when you stop and think about it, we’re all related, whether closely or very, very distantly. We must be, right?
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Incest instituted by God and afterwards He changed His mind…

That’s the problem of literal interpretation of Genesis.

Adam and Eve were the first humans to receive an immortal soul.
 
Jomann said:
Incest instituted by God and afterwards He changed His mind…

That’s the problem of literal interpretation of Genesis.

Adam and Eve were the first humans to receive an immortal soul.
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Of course, that option means that Mrs. Cain and many, many more early spouses of souled humans were basically animals. I’d prefer divinely approved incest to divinely approved bestiality.
 
It’s possible that Cain’s wife could have been his niece. However, brothers and sisters would have had to marry at least once.

The Bible teaches that God’s creation was originally good. When man sinned it all started to go bad. It’s possible that the genetic code at the time of Adam and Eve hadn’t yet started to deteriorate yet, therefore there would have been no risk of both spouses having the same genetic abnormalities which could cause deformities in their children.

Protestants will say that incest was not prohibited until the Law of Moses was given. Sarah was Abraham’s half-sister. Therefore when Adam and Eve’s children married each other they were committing no sin. However, does this work from the Catholic perspective or has incest always been morally wrong?
 
I read she came from the ‘Land of Nod’, but if this were accurate, there should have not been any other cities/towns out there yet…?
 
Usagi said:
Of course, that option means that Mrs. Cain and many, many more early spouses of souled humans were basically animals. I’d prefer divinely approved incest to divinely approved bestiality.
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The physical bodies were exactly the same: homo sapiens.

The lack of immortal soul only made them to be like a mentally deficient person (which union of soul and body are physically damaged).

The unsouled humans were just like the bicameral men proposed by Julian Jaynes.
 
mikekle said:
I read she came from the ‘Land of Nod’, but if this were accurate, there should have not been any other cities/towns out there yet…?
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She didn’t come from the land of Nod, they both went to the land of Nod.

Josephus Antiquities Book 1 Chapter 2
And when Cain had travelled over many countries, he with his wife, built a city named Nod.
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Doesnt Genesis 5:4 say Adam and Eve begat many sons and daughters?

This is probably where she came from.
 
Something related Ive found to be interesting, Cain was said to have been cursed to walk the earth until Jesus comes again…wonder if he is out there somewhere today and what he is doing?
 
jas84173 said:
Who was Cains wife??
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She was probably someone from the people Cain was afraid of

Genesis 4:13 “Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is greater than I can bear! Today you have driven me away from the soil, and I shall be hidden from your face; I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and anyone who meets me may kill me.” Then the Lord said to him, “Not so! Whoever kills Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance.” And the Lord put a mark on Cain, so that no one who came upon him would kill him. Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.”
 
Jomann said:
Incest instituted by God and afterwards He changed His mind…

That’s the problem of literal interpretation of Genesis.

Adam and Eve were the first humans to receive an immortal soul.
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I personally believe the literal interpretation. I’ve always taken the creation of Man and Woman to be the very first of all. Man, made from the dust of the earth and life breathed into him, Woman drawn from his rib. You’re right, God doesn’t change His mind, but in the very beginning, in order to procreate, there would have had to have been inbreeding as a necessity.
I hope the literal creation story is the true one. I just like it better. The other interpretations seem too evolution scientific for me.
 
PNEUMA said:
She was probably someone from the people Cain was afraid of

Genesis 4:13 “Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is greater than I can bear! Today you have driven me away from the soil, and I shall be hidden from your face; I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and anyone who meets me may kill me.” Then the Lord said to him, “Not so! Whoever kills Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance.” And the Lord put a mark on Cain, so that no one who came upon him would kill him. Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.”
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Does anyone know how Cain eventually died, or if anyone did kill him?

That ‘mark’ is interesting to think about, not sure what kind of physical mark would prevent someone from wanting to do him harm?
 
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