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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The Serpent's Seed
58-0928E §75
And watch, then here comes your giants. Then Cain went to the land of Nod. If his daddy was a great big giant of a fellow, what would Cain be like? His daddy. And he went to the land of Nod and took one of his sisters. Only way he could do, there was no more females could come, only through Eve. They claim they had seventy sons and daughters. If--if there was no females... The Bible don't record females when they're born, just man. And when... If there was no more females than Eve, when she died the human race ceas...
Questions and Answers on Hebrews, part 3
57-1006 §13
But the only thing then that Cain could have done, would've been, marry his own sister. And that's where the children was that... He got his wife, went to the land of Nod and knew her, and from there come the children. And if you notice, out of the line of Cain come the smart men. Out of line of Seth come the religious men ... I mean, the vine of righteousness. Right there, those two, brought forth the very line that we're living in today. If you'll notice today now (just in finishing this question): that lineage o...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 3:E-106
And so those two sons were born. Sons that would be the fathers of the human race that was even now polluted. And what does the record say of them? Read the record. Jude 14, "And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied..." Genesis 5 is the chapter of genealogy of Enoch. It gives that genealogy thusly, 1. Adam, 2. Seth, 3. Enos, 4. Cainan, 5. Mahalaleel, 6. Jared, 7. Enoch. Notice that Cain is not mentioned. The line of Adam goes through Seth. If Cain were the child of Adam, the law of the birthright would hav...
The Ark
55-0522 §21
...d him with Seth. 'Course we're taught by historians, that Adam and Eve had seventy sons and daughters. But as the Bible records only the three sons, Ham, Shem, and Japheth, was Noah's sons. Pardon me. Was Cain, Abel and Seth, was Noah's sons ... or, Adam's sons. Then, just a little bit excited. I have been for the last couple of days since my Joseph come, so I kind of get things a little mixed up. Notice, then through this lineage of Ham, after we carried all over through there, to the antediluvian destruction, his...
The invisible union of the Bride of Christ
65-1125 §61
Turn to Genesis 4:16 and find out. Get back there in Genesis 4:16 just a minute, and you will find out how that happened. 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.