Cain and Wife!

So after I saw that post about 15 ways you can get a wife on facebook, something caught my attention… Cain married and apparently had a son, Enoch. There’s nothing wrong about that, right? Right! I mean, even the bad ones end up getting some of the good things of life like a wife and a good son that walked uprightly with God. He even built a city! A whole city! Anyways that’s not where I’m going… where I’m going is Cain’s wife. Yeah, the damsel that bore him Enoch. Now, let you and I go back thousand of years ago… ready? *fastening seat belt*

CAIN

Meaning – A possession; a spear.
The first-born son of Adam and Eve (Gen. 4). He became a tiller of the ground, as his brother Abel followed the pursuits of pastoral life. He was "a sullen, self-willed, haughty, vindictive man; wanting the religious element in his character, and defiant even in his attitude towards God." It came to pass "in process of time" (marg. "at the end of days"), i.e., probably on the Sabbath, that the two brothers presented their offerings to the Lord. Abel's offering was of the "firstlings of his flock and of the fat," while Cain's was "of the fruit of the ground." Abel's sacrifice was "more excellent" (Heb. 11:4) than Cain's, and was accepted by God. On this account Cain was "very wroth," and cherished feelings of murderous hatred against his brother, and was at length guilty of the desperate outrage of putting him to death (1 John 3:12). For this crime he was expelled from Eden, and henceforth led the life of an exile, bearing upon him some mark which God had set upon him in answer to his own cry for mercy, so that thereby he might be protected from the wrath of his fellow-men; or it may be that God only gave him some sign to assure him that he would not be slain (Gen. 4:15). Doomed to be a wanderer and a fugitive in the earth, he went forth into the "land of Nod", i.e., the land of "exile", which is said to have been in the "east of Eden," and there he built a city, the first we read of, and called it after his son's name, Enoch. His descendants are enumerated to the sixth generation.


Ok, back to today… did anything in that short time travel make you raise your eyebrow? No? Yes? Not one tiny event? Huh? O_o… *sighs* ok, I’ll help you. Right from time, it was just Adam and Eve, yeah? Then they both had Abel and Cain… (making 4 people on earth)… one thing led to the other, Cain murdered Abel. So God sent him out of Eden and he became a wanderer… (now it’s been cut down to 3 people on earth). Getting the picture yet? Ok wait, eventually Cain had a son… Pray tell, where did Cain find a wife?! I don’t wanna make assumptions or start playing the guess game… but seriously, WHERE ON EARTH DID CAIN FIND THE WOMAN THAT BORE HIM ENOCH?! WHERE? WHERE?!

I was really bothered about this that I had to ask a friend, he concluded that the woman musta been Cain’s sister, born by Adam and Eve themselves! That would make sense, right. But it still doesn’t make sense to me… there is no record of a girl-child from the first ever couple that Cain coulda impregnated or married. My friend agreed that it was puzzling, but then that no matter how puzzling it can be, we all still came from two people – Adam and Eve! Now, that got me thinking again… if we all came from 2 people, and the world’s population is at 7 billion people currently, I wonder what level of ‘great’ and ‘grand’ Adam and Eve would be at now. They can’t even be my great greater greatest grand grander grandest parents! It’d be way beyond that! Hahaha!

*** if you figured out about Cain and the mother of his son, do let me know. Arigatto!