{"id":3288,"date":"2018-07-19T17:04:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T21:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2018-07-19T17:04:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T21:04:30","slug":"genesis-417-where-did-cain-get-his-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/genesis-417-where-did-cain-get-his-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis 4:17\u2014Where did Cain get his wife?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Problem:<\/strong> There were no women for Cain to marry. There was only Adam, Eve (4:1<\/a>), and his dead brother Abel (4:8<\/a>). Yet the Bible says Cain married and had children.<\/p>\n

Solution:<\/strong> Cain married his sister (or possibly a niece). The Bible says Adam \u201cbegot sons and daughters\u2019\u2019 (Gen. 5:4<\/a>). In fact, since Adam lived 930 years (Gen. 5:5<\/a>), he had plenty of time for plenty of children! Cain could have married one of his many sisters, or even a niece, if he married after his brothers or sisters had grown daughters. In that case, of course, one of his brothers would have married a sister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Problem: There were no women for Cain to marry. There was only Adam, Eve (4:1), and his dead brother Abel (4:8). Yet the Bible says Cain married and had children. Solution: Cain married his sister (or possibly a niece). The Bible says Adam \u201cbegot sons and daughters\u2019\u2019 (Gen. 5:4). In fact, since Adam lived 930Continue reading →<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}