Who Was Cain's Wife?
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.
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65-1125 §63
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Questions and Answers
62-0527 §20
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53-0729 §40
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57-1006 §18
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The faith that was once delivered to the saints
53-1129A §35
We take, for instance, the word Babylon. We see it up here in Genesis. First, it was called the Garden Gates, I believe, or the Gates to Heaven. The next thing it was called a confusion. And we find out that Babylon started over there in the beginning, and it was the first place of idolatry. We find out for it's in Genesis. Then we find it over here in the middle of the Bible, and then we find it over in Revelations appearing again. See, it come out of Genesis. Come up Babylon all along. Right on up and it goes to...