Who was Cain's wife?

This is a very misunderstood portion of Scripture in Genesis 4:17 and has caused a lot of harm by unbelieving and sarcastic liberals and infidels. This is due to the fact that they don't keep things in the context. You will find in Genesis 3:16 that God greatly multiplied the conception of Eve. There were other children besides Cain and Abel. The reason Cain and Abel are the only ones mentioned is because they represent the two "seeds" of the godly and the ungodly mentioned in Genesis 3:15. This is the first prophecy of Christ showing us that there would be a certain "seed" He would be born through. After Cain killed Abel, which pictured Christ being slain by the ungodly, but religious "Cains" of the world, he already had a wife out of all the other children that were conceived from Eve. It was nothing wrong with intermarrying of the same children at this time because the Mosaic Law was not established yet.

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