Who Was Cain's Wife?

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Answered by True Bible Teachings AI on 5/4/2026

1) Direct Answer
Cain married his sister—one of the daughters of Adam and Eve.

2) Scriptural Explanation
- The Bible says Adam “begat sons and daughters” (Genesis 5:4). Those daughters are not named, but they were there.
- Eve is called “the mother of all living” (Genesis 3:20). So every human—including Cain’s wife—came from Adam and Eve.
- Later God forbade close-kin marriages (Leviticus 18), but that law came after the early generations.

3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- In the beginning there was only one man and one woman. If Cain had a wife, she had to come from that same family.
- If his wife came from another people, then Eve would not be the mother of all living. That would contradict the Scripture.

4) Reinforcing Statement
Now notice, Cain didn’t find a different race; he took a sister. That’s how the human family multiplied at the start. The Bible keeps it simple.

What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?

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Abraham and his Seed after him

Sunday, the 23rd of April 1961

61-0423 §63

(watch), to the church that was in Sodom, in the world. Now sometime this week we're going to take the mark of the beast, and the seal of God, and watch how that started right in Eden, and come right out where Cain went out from the presence of God to get his wife; how Seth stayed in the presence of God and got his wife; how the churches---different ways---went out with the organizations, going out with the organizations (the system) and got themselves a church, a bride; and when the real true church stayed with Go...

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SermonRelevance 22

Power of transformation

Sunday morning, the 31st of October 1965 at the Pine Lawn Trailer Park in Prescott, Arizona, U.S.A.

65-1031M §67

Now the twenty-fifth verse: And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: for God, said she, has appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. And to Seth ... and to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: and then men began to call on the name of the Lord. See how that serpent's seed went off into science, education, cities, and music, and great things, and education, and science, and so forth?

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SermonRelevance 22

The True Easter Seal

Sunday, the 2nd of April 1961

61-0402 §113

...know that the mark of the beast is disbelief. The first time... "Where'd you say the mark of the beast begin?" In the garden of Eden. Mark of the beast and the seal of God was performed in the garden of Eden. Exactly. It was performed through Easter, for the death of Abel brought forth Seth. That's right. Notice. Cain was the son of Satan. He was the son of the beast which beguiled Eve. You can call it whatever you want to. He was the son of Satan. And what did he do? God put a mark on him, and sent him out from t...

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SermonRelevance 21

Oneness

Sunday, the 11th of February 1962

62-0211 §68

...nd make a nation out of you." God separated him. "Come out from among them, Abraham, leave everything behind." And God never blessed him till he left everything behind; Lot was the last. "Come out, Abraham, separate yourself from them unbelievers. And I'm going to take you and make a nation out of you. I'll make a people that'll keep My commandments. I'm going to give them another chance." Good old Abraham went to sojourning in a strange land. That's what every Abraham does, sojourning in a strange land. What? Beli...

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SermonRelevance 19

The Seal of God and the Mark of the Beast, part 1

Thursday, the 16th of February 1961

61-0216 §58

And when the sleeping virgin went out, which had already received the mark of the beast... You say, "Mark of the beast, that... ?" Yes, indeedy. So did Cain receive the mark, and went out. What was it? When the Baptist church, when the Pentecostal church, when the Presbyterian church took on the mark of the beast instead of receiving the Holy Ghost, they went out from God and made them an organization. What did they do? Took them a false wife, a false wife, of the world---brought in painted-up Jezebels, and everyth...

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