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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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.
God's power to transform
65-0911 §42
Now, to show where civilization come from, now let us read Genesis, over here, in the fourth chapter of Genesis again, and see where ... the sixteenth verse. And Cain went out from the presence of God, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east side 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 his son, Enoch. Civilization started. Doctor Scofield, here in my Scofield Bible, says, "the first civilization." Notice. Then he begot sons,...
Questions and Answers on Genesis
53-0729 §52
So Cain married his sister, and then they went over there into the land of Nod. Now, we get into a deep subject if we went a little farther, and I'm glad you never asked any farther than that, (like, "Where was those giants that was in that land that day?" Josephus and different ones has many arguments on it.). Amen! If I didn't get that right, brother, hand it in again Sunday morning. All right
Questions and Answers, Part 3
64-0830M §184
...'ll find out that in the genealogies, nowhere in the Bible... If... Look! If Noah---if Enoch is the seventh from Adam, the Bible said, "Adam and then his son Seth," because Cain was not Adam's seed. It said Adam begot Seth, and Seth begot ... Jared; Jared begot, all the way down to Enoch; and Enoch was the seventh from Adam. Nowhere did it ever speak that Cain was ever considered to be anything in the genealogies of God.