Questions and Answers

Where did Cain get his wife?

We see in the Bible in Genesis 3 where Adam and Eve were cursed and sent out of the Garden of Eden.

In Genesis 4, Cain kills Abel.

In Genesis 4:17 below we see that Cain had relations with his wife. Where did he get his wife? The answer is simple. Cain married one of his sisters. We see that Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters. The genetic lineage of Adam and Eve was perfect so marrying a sister wasn't going to cause birth defects.

It wasn't until much later, during the time of Moses, that incest was forbidden as the genetic pool became less and less able to stand interbreeding in Levitius.

• Genesis 4:17 - Cain lay with his wife
• Leviticus 18:6 - No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations