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This is one of the most common questions we receive. If Adam
was the first man, directly created by God, and Eve the first woman, also
a direct creation, and only three sons are mentioned -- Cain,· Abel, and
Seth, it is but natural that many ask: "Where then, did caiu get his
wife?"
Did Cain have a wife? Yes, it is written in Genesis 4:17:
"And Cain knew hi-s wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch
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Cain had a wife, and · a son.
For that matter, where did Seth get a wife?
ancestor of Noah, of Abraham, of David, and of Christ.
as Cain, must have had a wife.
Seth is a direct
So Seth, as well
The answer is found in the genealogy of Adam, in Genesis 5.
It is written in verses 4-5: "And the days of Adam after he had begotten
Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: And all
the days that Adam lived were nine h11ndred and thirty years: and he died."
There is the answer. Adam begat son.s AND DAUGHTERS. God had
blessed Adam and Eve, and aaid unto them:
"Be
fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth ••• " (Gen. 1:28). All human life started from
them. Row could they be fruitful and multiply, unless they had BOTH sons
and daughters, and their sona
marr~ed
the daughters?
The answer is simple. Both Cain and Seth married their sisters.
There undoubtedly were many of them even before the birth of Seth.
Adam and Eve, as
God
had proposed, were fruitful! After the
birth of Seth, Adam lived BIGHT HUNDRED YEARS, and "he begat sons and
daughters." The sense of the passage
is
that he continued begetting
sons and daughters,
That is a 1ong time -- as long as though some man
and his wife living back
in
the middle ages -- way back
in
the 1100's
had continued to live and continually bear children ever since, clear up
to now -- the 1900's! Adam was 130 years of age when Seth was born
(Gen. 5:3), After that-- after he was 130 years of age-- Adam continued
begetting sons and d.aughters
eight.~hundred
years!
It's almost impossible for our minds to grasp,
in
this fast–
moving, short-lived world
o~
one or two children to a family, how many
children Adam and Eve probably had during their great span of life, nearly
a thousand years. It's hard for us to realize that Adam lived almost