GENESIS 4:17

Q: Where did cities and other people come from? Where did Cain’s wife come from? I assume

 she wasn’t his sister.

 

Since the patriarchs lived hundreds of years, it is conceivable that Adam and Eve could have had a

number of other children and grandchildren not mentioned in the text. See Genesis 5:4.

 

Also is the possibility that Adam and Eve are only one couple specifically created after the general

creation of mankind in Genesis 1. Genesis 4:14 seems to indicate this possibility. 

 

Intriguingly, the city considered by archeologists to be one of the oldest in Mesopotamia has as its

oldest attested name UNUG (Genesis 4:14).