Cain's wife my not have been his sister
If you look back at the creation story, in Genesis 1:26 we get the creation of man. The Hebrew word for man is adam and appears in v. 25 without the grammatic article, which is to say that "man" is not being used in the specific but in the general sense, mankind not THE man. In Genesis 2:6 God (Elohim) finds that "there was not a man to till the ground." Any middle school history teacher can tell you that before humans settled down into communities and "tilled the ground", they wondered after herds of animals as hunter/gatherers. Furthermore, if it were meant to mean that there was "no man" then the verse would have ended after "not a man" so as to not show that there were men doing other things.
Some may argue that in Genesis 3:20 Adam (the article being present) names his wife Eve "because she was the mother of all living." She is the mother of all living because through her comes Seth, the start of the Christ line- the blood line through which Yeshua Jesus Christ would be born. Since the gift of God is eternal life and the only way to attain it is by accepting it through the blood of Christ, Eve is the mother of all living through salvation. Thus, Cain may have left Eden, found another group of people, and populated among them.
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