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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Seals 9: Questions and Answers on the Seals
63-0324M §61
It makes me so nervous, see. And you just have to be watching, and the enemy on every side, and you're conscious of that, you see. (Yes, that's it.) And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have begotten a man from the Lord. Now, I'm just going to answer you a question, my brother or sister. And now remember, not throwing to you---no. I'm trying to help you, see. I love you, and I love the person who might've been a critic of it, but I don't think this person is critical. They said,...
The Seal of God and the Mark of the Beast, part 1
61-0216 §22
Notice he went out from the presence of God when he was marked, went to the land of Nod, and got him a wife. Very type of the church---goes out from God, gets a wife of the world, see. Watch it, glorious! Now, we have to change quickly, now, that we don't take too much time. Now we find out that then Abel, Cain's brother ... Cain slew Abel. And God gave Adam another son instead of Abel, whose name was Seth. And it was a sign, and a sign from God of death and resurrection. So Seth never went to the land of Nod to ge...
The Seal of God and the Mark of the Beast, part 2
61-0217 §24
But, however, we find that Cain, then, went away from God, and took himself a wife out of another group, in the land of Nod. That's exactly what the man does that will not come up and worship God in Spirit and truth. He goes off and gets him a church that will satisfy him. Goes off. But remember, Seth was a type. Abel being the one that was killed, Seth took his place---was a sign of the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord placed back again. Notice, how them seeds came down, last night.
Marriage and Divorce
65-0221M §91
And Abel and Cain in the garden of Eden, Cain drawed his own conception. He said, "Now, look. God's a good God. He's over all nature, so I'll get the beans and potatoes, and I'll get the flowers, and I'll make Him a real pretty altar (that's a church). He knelt down, he believed God, he worshipped God, put up his hands, and offered this sacrifice. He done everything religious that Abel did. Abel built the same kind of an altar, but when Abel brought his, he brought a lamb. Now, Cain thought that making an antidote...
Condemnation by Representation
60-1113 §45
...mnable, corruptible world is ready for judgment!? So evil. Cross up; cross up what God has joined together. A woman live unclean to her husband, husband live unclean to his wife, and bring a hybrid child. Oh, some woman say, "Oh, isn't he beautiful, a great big tall fellow?" That's the same thing, maybe, Eve thought. She brought a hybrid child! and the hybrid child was Cain! and through Cain came giants! It's always been the cursed of the Lord---hybrid. Stay away from it. Hybrid religion. Don't mix it.