LOL @Waggles I did not say Cain married his sister, can you not read or do you just like to twist everything? Your lack of logic in this matter notwithstanding, since Eve was said to be the mother of ALL living, Cain would have HAD to have married either a sister or a niece, or grand niece, etc, as I said, and there is no way around Cain marrying a close relative unless you deny what the Bible explicitly states. Also, the Bible does NOT say, as you erroneously claim, that Cain married in Nod. He knew his wife there and that is where she conceived. It can be assumed they married there but it does not say they did, so it could also be assumed they went there together as a married couple or that he met her on the way there and married.
LOL @Waggles I did not say Cain married his sister, can you not read or do you just like to twist everything? Your lack of logic in this matter notwithstanding, since Eve was said to be the mother of ALL living, Cain would have HAD to have married either a sister or a niece, or grand niece, etc, as I said, and there is no way around Cain marrying a close relative unless you deny what the Bible explicitly states. Also, the Bible does NOT say, as you erroneously claim, that Cain married in Nod. He knew his wife there and that is where she conceived. It can be assumed they married there but it does not say they did, so it could also be assumed they went there together as a married couple or that he met her on the way there and married.
Among Adam's sons and daughters, some of them would have had to intermarry with brothers and sisters to get the process of reproduction going. Perhaps Cain married a sister. If not, he could have married a niece, or grand niece, etc. At this point there were no laws against such close intermarriage. God had commanded reproduction and such intermarriage would be needed to obey the command. Intermarriage among close relatives was forbidden only years later. So much for @Waggles claim
@Magenta I think it's obvious that you are debating with people who have confirmation bias. That is they are already convinced that their hypothesis is correct and they can only accept evidence that proves what they already believe and or deny everything that contradicts this false narrative. It's a common abnormality but denial and confabulation have taken over the minds of the closed minded. I think you should have realized that they couldn't accept the logical truth and evidence when they descended to kindergarten level and started calling names like children throwing sand in a sand box.
We know it dosn't say that Cain married his wife in Nod or that she was from Nod only that in the King James it says he knew her there or NIV says they made love there. If it said what they say it says it would further confirm my theory. However it does not.
We know Abraham and Sarah were 1/2 siblings and that marriage between Hebrews and hebrews was encouraged and between Hebrews and foreigners was discouraged so much so people often married near family members like Aunts, nephews and cousins. Jacob even married two of Laban's daughters who shared their female servants with Jacob for the purpose of bearing more children.
The laws concerning such things were not written yet. Furthermore; If I am incorrect, which I may be, incest would have been the only way to propagate humanity. Through the first 9 or so generations.
I'm pretty sure a lot of things happened that weren't written however contradicting what is written is upon their heads.