{"id":10289,"date":"2018-07-12T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10289"},"modified":"2018-07-12T00:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T00:34:00","slug":"cains-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10289\/cains-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Cain\u2019s Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi Pastor Clark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have question:\u00a0 Who is the wife of Cain in Genesis?\u00a0 how the humans scattered in the earth?\u00a0 \u00a0That is always the question of my brother, and I cannot answer him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Leika.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Adam and Eve, over the centuries, had a multitude of sons and daughters (Gen. 5:4).\u00a0 Cain, as well as Abel, Seth, and Adam\u2019s other sons, married their sisters,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>and that was good at that time.\u00a0 Human population, given the life span of men before the Flood, would have multiplied very swiftly.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>About two thousand years after Adam, Abraham married his half-sister, Sarah, but by the time of Moses, almost a thousand years after Abraham, the human race had grown so diverse that marriages between brother and sister were no longer needed, and so, God said not to do it any more:\u00a0 \u201cNone of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord\u201d (Lev. 18:6, KJV).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>I hope that helps.\u00a0 \u00a0Thank you for your question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Pastor Clark. I have question:\u00a0 Who is the wife of Cain in Genesis?\u00a0 how the humans scattered in the earth?\u00a0 \u00a0That is always the question of my brother, and I cannot answer him. ========== Hi Leika. Adam and Eve, over the centuries, had a multitude of sons and daughters (Gen. 5:4).\u00a0 Cain, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}