{"id":45070,"date":"2022-10-01T01:39:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/who-did-cain-marry-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:39:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:39:19","slug":"who-did-cain-marry-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/who-did-cain-marry-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Did Cain Marry? &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A querist asks, &#8220;The Bible talks about Cain getting married. My question is who did he marry? If Adam and Eve where the only people in the beginning, where did Cain&#8217;s mate come from?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Genesis 4:17 NASB, the text reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Cain had relations with his wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city Enoch, after the name of his son.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cain could have married no other than his sister (cf. Genesis 1:28; Genesis 5:4).<\/p>\n<p>What the Scriptures clearly teach is that all human beings are descendants of Adam and Eve (Genesis 3:20), therefore there had to be inter-marriage between brothers and sisters in the beginning (cf. Genesis 20:11-12). God did not prohibit such marriages until the time of Moses (cf. Leviticus 18:9).<\/p>\n<p>This really presents no problems genetically, because the first few generations would have inherited perfect or near-perfect genes. It takes time for mutations to occur and accumulate in the human population. Today, we have approximately 1,500 genetic defects in our gene pool.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, God would have watched over the gene pool in order to accomplish His purpose in filling the earth with humans (Genesis 1:27-28; Genesis 9:1; Genesis 9:7).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where Did Cain Get His Wife?<\/li>\n<li>Table of Nations (Genealogy of Mankind\/Origin of Races)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A querist asks, &#8220;The Bible talks about Cain getting married. My question is who did he marry? If Adam and Eve where the only people in the beginning, where did Cain&#8217;s mate come from?&#8221; In Genesis 4:17 NASB, the text reads: &#8220;Cain had relations with his wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/who-did-cain-marry-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who Did Cain Marry? &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}