ChristyR Wrote: Okay, so in the book of Genesis of The Bible, Cain is Enoch's father. My question is where did Cain's wife come from? If you take the book literally (which I can't imagine another way to answer this pretty important question) you have Adam and Eve giving birth to 3 sons, Cain, Abel and Seth. Adam and Eve have no daughters in The Bible, book of Genesis. Then all of the sudden Cain's wife appears, from nowhere, and she's pregnant! What?! How is this? Where did she come from??
Next, Eve bares two sons, Cain & Abel. There is no further discussion of her bearing any more children. Next, Cain kills Abel, and God banishes Cain to “be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth” (4:12). Cain goes to Nod (4:16), and then has sexual intercourse with his wife (4:17).
Let’s stop right there. To this point there have only been four (4) humans on the Earth: Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel. Abel is now dead, leaving three (3); Adam, Eve, and Cain. Where did this “wife” (who shows up suddenly in 4:17) in the “Land of Nod” (4:16) come from??? The online version of the Bible that I am looking at must be flawed, because I do recall, as noted in postings above that Cain & Abel did have a brother Seth, who is not mentioned in the online Bible I am reading (http://www.bibleontheweb.com/Bible.asp). Still and all, If Fundamentalist Christianity insists that the Bible be taken LITERALLY, then the above shows an immediate and fatal flaw in logic. It cannot be explained "around" with circuitous reasoning, if their call for LITERAL translation is to hold water......'you can't have your cake, and eat it too' (you can't have it both ways, both LITERAL and NOT LITERAL).
I can't say if you will accept this answer or not but according to the Bible. Genesis 5:4 (NAS Version) "Then the days of Adam after he became father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters" The Bible does not go into it chronologically, but one could assume that he had them before Cain married. So that's where his wife would come from