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== "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.
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