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Recently Popular Pages x. Recently Popular Media x. One of the most often-asked questions about the Bible is that of Cain's wife. The Bible says that after he killed his brother Abel, Cain married a wife. And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and born Enoch. And he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son - Enoch Genesis Many Questions There are many difficulties that arise with this statement since Genesis only records two children of Adam and Eve to this point-Cain and Abel.
The issues to be considered are these: 1 If all humanity descended from Adam and Eve, then where did his wife come from? The idea of Cain marrying someone from this race creates more problems than it solves. The Scriptures are clear that Adam was the first man created Genesis , ; 1 Corinthians Furthermore, his wife Eve was given her name because she was the mother of all living Genesis These two facts rule out the idea of some Pre-Adamic race from which Cain chose a wife.
Other Children Other Bible students have attempted to explain the existence of other humans apart from Cain and Abel by saying they were not necessarily the first two sons of Adam and Eve. They contend that other sons and daughters could have been born before Cain and Abel and that the Bible is merely singling out these two for emphasis. Attempting to say that other children existed before Cain and Abel has no support in Scripture but it cannot be totally ruled out.
If all of humanity did descend from Adam and Eve and their first two sons were Cain and Abel then how do we explain the existence of Cain's wife? The Bible does not tell us how old Cain and Abel were when this murder took place. It merely says it occurred at the end of days.
It is not necessary to assume that they were mere teenagers or young men. If each of them were over fifty years of age, then there could have been a considerable number of people living at the time.
We know this because the Scripture does state that Adam and Eve had many more sons and daughters than Cain and Abel. And he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters. So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died Genesis , 4. The Bible says Adam was one hundred and thirty years old when Seth was born.
He then lived another eight hundred years. God had promised Eve that he would greatly multiply her conception Genesis In fact Jewish tradition states that Adam had 33 sons and 23 daughters!
Therefore many people could have existed at the time when Cain killed Abel. It has been conservatively estimated that 32, people could have been alive at that time this event occurred.
If we assume the couples gave birth to children for only half of their life span, then the population by the time of Adam's death could have been very large.
Moreover, the genealogy in Genesis 5 records that every descendant of Adam down to Lamech had other sons and daughters. These other sons and daughters were born to men not older than one hundred and eighty-seven years.
With these facts in mind, there would be no problem finding a wife for Cain. Prior to his banishment, Cain could have had many women from whom to take a wife. What About Incest? Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sources all transmit some version of this motif, but the details vary widely. Some ancient sources, for example, say Cain and Abel each had a twin sister but fought over who would marry the one who was more beautiful; others give Abel two sisters and Cain only one.
The midrash takes this motif further, saying that Cain and Abel fought over three things: how to divide property, in whose territory the temple would be built, and who would marry the additional twin sister born with Abel Genesis Rabbah XXII.
These creative interpretations come from hundreds of years after Genesis was written down. But they do show the continued life of the biblical text in the hands of its interpreters : its gaps and silences become fertile ground for new traditions.
She studies Jewish literature from the Hellenistic and Roman periods, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, asking how early Jews imagined scripture and writing before the biblical canon was set.
The biblical story of Cain killing Abel raises questions about why Cain killed Abel, reflecting the concern of biblical law to determine the intentions and state of mind of a killer.
The Bible includes some forms of historical writing that each have their own way of being accurate or true, even if they are not objectively accurate. Reception history explores all the different ways that people have received and used biblical texts in all aspects of culture throughout history.
An ancient Jewish book that retells the stories of Genesis with added references to angels, fallen angels, and prophecy. It was highly regarded by early Christians and the Jews from Qumran, and is still considered canonical to Ethiopian Jews and Christians.
The method of rabbinic interpretation of the Bible; the term midrash can also refer to a collection of such interpretation. A Jewish philosopher who lived from roughly 20 B.
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