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Line 1: − '''Cain''' (Hebrew, "''acquisition''") was the firstborn son of [[Adam]] and [[Eve]] as recorded in the [[Bible]]. Born after [[Fall of man|the Fall]], he became a farmer. He was the first murderer, killing his brother [[Abel]] because God accepted Abel's offering, but not Cain's. God punished him by cursing him to be a wanderer who would always have to toil hard for little reward. When Cain protested that "whoever finds me will kill me," God put a mark on him so that "if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." <ref>Genesis 4:10-17</ref>+ − + − In time, Cain built a city that he named after his son Enoch. According to the apocryphal [[Book of Jubilees]], Cain married his sister <ref>Such marriages were not forbidden until the time of [[Moses]].</ref> Awan and was later killed when his house collapsed on him.<ref>Book of Jubilees 4:9,31</ref>+ − + − + − == "Who was Cain's wife?" == − − When Cain was sent away by God into exile, mankind was in its second generation - anyone Cain (or any of his siblings) could marry would be his close relative. However, the [[Law of Moses]] forbids the marriage of close relatives. Many people find this a Biblical contradiction. − − However, this law was not given until later, at the time of Moses (Leviticus 18). Indeed, [[Abraham]] married his half-sister Sarah (Genesis 20:12). When God created man, He called him "very good". However, after the [[Fall of Man]], harmful genetic mutations would gradually build up and cause virtually all offspring of close relatives to be deformed because both parents would have the same mutated [[allele]]s. For example, many Egyptian [[pharaoh]]s married their sisters and had perfectly normal offspring; the children of such incestuous unions today are almost always deformed.<ref>Rushdoony, ''The Institutes of Biblical Law''</ref> − − Note also that a wife is related to her husband even before they marry, as all humans come from the offspring of Adam and Eve. − − Therefore, the popular question of "who was Cain's wife?" is easily answered. − − == References == − − {{reflist}} − [[Category:Biblical Persons]]
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