How did Cain find a Wife ?

[Apple Sky]

And who did Cain build cities for ?

When God Marked Cain who was going to kill him ?

 

[AV1611VET]

And who did Cain build cities for ?

When God Marked Cain who was going to kill him ?

You do realize that 130 years passed before Cain killed Abel, don't you?

A lot of people can be born in that time.

Especially if they were blessed with fertility and told to multiply on the earth.

 

[Aldebaran]

As for his wife, she was born of Eve. Incest wasn't a thing back then.
Keep in mind that when the births are mentioned as to who was born to whom, notice that none of them are women. So it could also be asked where anyone else besides Cain got their wives as well. But women were obviously born, including to Eve. They just aren't mentioned in scripture.

 

[Petros2015]

Neanderthals.

 

[eleos1954]

And who did Cain build cities for ?

When God Marked Cain who was going to kill him ?

it was a sign of divine protection

 

[Apple Sky]

Neanderthals.

Interesting.

 

[AV1611VET]

Interesting.

So-called "Neanderthals" came afterwards; starting in Moses' time.

Deuteronomy 28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

 

[timothyu]

A lot of people can be born in that time.

Couple thousand for sure.
Has anyone considered the Garden was separate from the world of man for a time and the Torah perhaps refers to a 'special' race that lived there?

 

[Fervent]

If the Bible doesn't tell us, why fill the gap?

 

[AV1611VET]

Couple thousand for sure.

Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Ocotmom would have been envious.

Has anyone considered the Garden was separate from the world of man ...

Here's what the earth would have looked like in Adam's time:

... for a time and the Torah perhaps refers to a 'special' race that lived there?

Then the Torah was wrong.

 

[timothyu]

If the Bible doesn't tell us, why fill the gap?

The Hebrew people had no trouble doing so and much of their lore is ignored.

Then the Torah was wrong.

It said it was closed off so a gated community perhaps

 

[Apple Sky]

Has anyone considered the Garden was separate from the world of man for a time and the Torah perhaps refers to a 'special' race that lived there?

Could these have been the people from Genesis 1:26 ?

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

 

[public hermit]

And who did Cain build cities for ?

When God Marked Cain who was going to kill him ?

Read it as a spiritual text instead of a literal text. What does the text say about God, humanity, and the world? Search for the evergreen and you won't get hung up in brambles.

 

[AV1611VET]

When God Marked Cain who was going to kill him?

No one.

Genesis 4:15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

The death penalty hadn't been instituted as yet.

It came after the Flood.

Genesis 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

 

[Apple Sky]

No one.

Genesis 4:15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

The death penalty hadn't been instituted as yet.

It came after the Flood.

Genesis 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Where in the Bible does it say this ?

 

[ozso]

Where in the Bible does it say this ?

In the verses he provided.

 

[Apple Sky]

In the verses he provided.

Sorry - but from this verse I get nothing that tells that this happened after the deluge.

 

[ozso]

Sorry - but from this verse I get nothing that tells that this happened after the deluge.

Genesis 9 takes place after the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. And the water receded steadily from the earth (Genesis 8:2-3).

 

[linux.poet]

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[AV1611VET]

Where in the Bible does it say this ?

From AI Overview:

In the biblical narrative, Cain wasn't executed for killing Abel because God had not yet instituted capital punishment as a societal law. While Cain deserved death for his crime, God chose to impose a different form of punishment, namely banishment and a life of wandering. This is detailed in Genesis 4:15 where God places a mark on Cain to protect him from being killed by others.