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Deuteronomy 27:22.

3. What does the first-century A.D. Judahite historian Josephus plainly
state?

COMMENT: He states that there were other peoples living at the time --
notice!

"And when Cain had travelled over many countries, he, with his wife, built a
city, named Nod, which is a place so called, and there he settled his abode;
where also he had children. However, he did not accept of his punishment
in order to amendment, but to increase his wickedness; for he only aimed
to procure everything that was for his own bodily pleasure, though it
obliged him to be injurious to his neighbors. He augmented his house-
hold substance with much wealth, by rapine and violence; he excited his
acquaintance to procure pleasures and spoils by robbery, and be-
came a great leader of men into wicked courses. He also introduced a
change in that way of simplicity wherein men lived before; and he was the
author of measures and weights. And whereas they [mankind] lived inno-
cently and generously while they knew nothing of such arts, he changed
the world into cunning craftiness. He first of all set boundaries about
lands; he built [another] city, and fortified it with walls, and he compelled his
family to come together to it; and called that city Enoch, after the name of
his eldest son Enoch" (Antiquities of the Jews, Book I, Chapter II, 2).

COMMENT: When Cain went out from the presence of YEHOVAH God, he
dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden, where Josephus clearly
states he had “neighbors” (Genesis 4:16).

4. So where did Cain get his wife from? Genesis 6:1-2.

COMMENT: He must have married from the same source as the "sons of
God" did in the verse above.

5. What about Noah – did he get his wife from the same source? Genesis
6:9.

COMMENT: Noah, however, walked with YEHOVAH God and was “perfect
in his generations”. In other words, Noah married within the Adamic line as
YEHOVAH God intended.

6. Did Esau, on the other hand, take wives of the strangers? Genesis
26:34, 35.

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