questions in genesis

[WATCHING AND WAITING]

My devotion are in genesis lately, and I have a couple q's.

1st q: Where did Cain get his wife? Could G-d have made other people, and just not been recorded? I have always known Cain to have been sent away by G-d, but for there to be another land ( Nod) and a wife, let alone more people, give me questions. This may be something we will never know, until we are with Jesus, but Is there maybe, more records somewhere?


2nd q: In chapter 6 G-d tell Noah to take 2 of each living creature, then in Ch 7, He tell him to take 7 pairs of clean and 1 ea. of unclean. Why the difference? Is the 2nd reference for them to eat while on the ark?

Insights please.:hat

[Hootmon]

1st q: Where did Cain get his wife? The only real answer is 'Scripture doesnt tell us'. Any other answer you get will be based on at least some speculation.


2nd q: In chapter 6 G-d tell Noah to take 2 of each living creature, then in Ch 7, He tell him to take 7 pairs of clean and 1 ea. of unclean. Why the difference? Is the 2nd reference for them to eat while on the ark?The extra 5 pairs of 'clean' animals were needed for sacrifices. Before the flood, 'meat' had not yet been given for food...

[Alhere]

It is generally thought that Cain married one of his sisters.

Gen 5:4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

Marrying a sister or close relative was not prohibited until after the flood. I don't have that reference at my fingertips.

The reasoning was that Adam and Eve were created genetically perfect and after the fall into sin it still took many generations before genetic mistakes or deterioration to begin to accumulate in the human gene pool.

At a certain point in time God prohibited marrying of close relatives because common genetics with similar defects would manifest themselves in the offspring. If you married someone who wasn't a close relative then you were combining 2 fairly dissimilar sets of genes and any defects that were present had a good chance of being overridden and would not manifest themselves to the detriment of the child.

So from Adam and Eve who were in a state of genetic perfection we have the gradual deterioration of the human gene pool to the point we are at now, consistent with creation and entropy and the opposite direction of the fairy tale of evolution.