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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Questions and Answers on Hebrews, part 1
57-0925 §89
Now Genesis 3:8, and also I put 20 here, I was looking a while ago: And Adam called his wife ... Eve; because she was the mother of all living. [See, that was after this beguiling had already took place.] Cain was... "Now wait!" You say, "How could a snake, a serpent?" But, brother, watch here, the Bible don't say he was a serpent; the Bible said, "He was the most subtle of all the beasts of the field." He wasn't a reptile; he was a beast. And let me just give you this as a little token between us, if you will. Tha...
Power of transformation
65-1031M §63
See how religious it was? Went around to the east side. East side. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and Enoch built a city. [See, civilization.] He built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch. And ... Enoch was born Irad: and Irad be ... and Irad be ... [Gap in the audio] ... took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other was Zillah. And Adah bare Jabal ... the father of such ... dwelt in tents, and of such that has cattl...
Questions and Answers on Hebrews, part 3
57-1006 §22
So Cain knew his wife, and that was his sister. And he took her to the land of Nod, and there come forth the great tribes of the earth: the religionists and worshippers. And just think today, friend, just stop and think just for a moment. That there are tens of thousands times tens of thousands and thousands of thousands, of absolutely church going people, just as sincere and consecrated to that church they can be, that's just as far lost as Cain was, see. It's God who chooses. It's God who elects, see. God who giv...
The invisible union of the Bride of Christ
65-1125 §62
On down to Tubal, on down forth they began to come, designers of instruments, music, and so forth. Civilization came by Cain! Right. Building cities, instruments, scientific men come by Cain, the serpent's seed. Now notice the 25th verse: "And Adam knew his wife again." Now, he knew her once, and she had two children. Search the Scripture. She had Cain and Abel. One act and two children. They told me not long ago, it couldn't happen. We've got a case in Hollywood right ... Hollywood... We've got a case in Tucson ri...
Questions and Answers on Hebrews, part 3
57-1006 §12
Now, the only person that Cain could have had, or married, would have had to be his own sister. He had to, because there's only one male and female that they could have come from, see; and he had to marry his own sister. Now, that was legal in those days. Isaac married his own first blood cousin, Rebekah, ordained of God. Sarah was Abraham's sister, his blood sister; not by his mother, by his father. See, a blood sister that Abraham married; a different mother, but same father. So, you see, to marry in relation the...