Genesis 5

Where did Cain and Seth find wives?

Welcome to the Daily Bible Chapter. My name is James Leroy Wilson and I invite you to join me as we discover new insights and new perspectives from a very old book.

In Chapter 4 it seems that Cain abandoned Jehovah God and went his own way (and built a civilization). Chapter 5 seems to be the story of the family branch that maintained their connection to Jehovah God through Cain’s younger brother Seth.

You may have heard it asked, or have wondered to yourself, “Where did Cain and Seth find their wives?” I think there are even suggestions that marrying their sisters, the unnamed and never-mentioned daughters of Adam and Eve, was necessary and appropriate to propagate the species.

But I think that’s all built on a false premise. From Chapter 2 it seems that Jehovah God “supernaturally” created Adam and then Eve. But in Chapter 1 it says that God (not identified as Jehovah God) made man “in our image and likeness.”

That is, there were other humans around and about, concurrent to the events unfolding to the Garden of Eden, and it is these “Chapter 1” females that the sons of Adam and Eve married.

Why, then, didn’t Adam himself marry one of these Chapter 1 women? Why did Eve need to be taken out of himself? Because he was created purely from…