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 Genesis
53-0729 §47
Oh, how we could dwell on these questions for hours, on one, but it wouldn't just the others. But notice. Here's... How many would like to know what we believe that Cain ... who Cain's wife was? Let's see. All right. I tell you what Cain done, and it's the only sensible answer you can figure: Cain married his own sister. He had to, for there was only one female on the earth then; the Bible only gives record of three being born, Ham, Shem ... or not ... (I beg your pardon), was Cain, Abel, and Seth. But if there was...
Questions and Answers on Hebrews, part 3
57-1006 §9
...here, I see it's something that I've said before, that it's handed back again. I want to read it now, if you will. QUESTION: "When Adam and Eve had their children in Eden, was there other people on earth at this time? In Genesis the 5th chapter and the 16th verse, Cain dwelt in the land of Nod and knew his wife." Now, that's a wonderful question. Now, we are taught in the Bible... And many times these ... sometimes we have carelessly... I used to put on a little slip of paper, and say, "Answer any Bible question."...
Questions and Answers on Hebrews, part 3
57-1006 §17
Now, from there, Cain went and married his wife in the land of Nod. Now, it doesn't say who Seth married, or who others married. And the very beautiful thing of that, is to know that, Cain marrying, we have the answer to it. Because he had to marry his sister, or there'd been a... There was no more women on the earth, but just had to come from Eve. She was the mother of all living. That's: all the people that was living, she was the mother of it. That's the reason she... The word Eve means "the mother of the living...
Questions and Answers on Genesis
53-0729 §43
Now, here's another thing: QUESTION: Did Cain go to the first creation of men and woman for his wife? Now, there is an awful ticklish question. Now listen real close. Now, oh, you've seen people put in the paper: "Where did Cain get his wife?" Oh, I used to say it. And I never taught there was a burning hell for about four years after my conversion. I had to see it in the Scripture. If I don't know, I won't say nothing about it, see. But, now, "Where did Cain get his wife?" That's the analysis of this question. "No...
Questions and Answers
62-0527 §26
So the serpent had beguiled Eve. That's truly. Then after the judgment was set, then Adam knew his wife. And then she conceived and brought forth a son, Cain. You get it? See, the conjunction is just carrying on what Adam did, not what was done before Adam. And look here, if you'd like to carry that out, in that great statement here, I believe we find it over here in the 4th chapter, I believe it is. And Adam knew ... his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and [a conjunction] said, I have gotten a man from the...