who cain married

I like the way the Bible is so coy in certain episodes and so definitive in the rest of the Book. We have to guess who Cain (and Seth) bonked, who the Pharoah of the Exodus was,the identity of the Beloved Disciple, even what is going on with the naked man in Mark. If He wasn`t such a butcher, I might suspect God to have a sense of humour, inserting these little puzzles to annoy non-believers in the future (or to give believers fantasy-room).

I bow to your knowledge, Arach, but do you really think God would inspire a book to be read by Gentiles all over the world, that necessitated having an erudite Hebrew scholar on call for each passage?

But that is the point, J. Which translation carries the Word?

What we might fail to consider is that, at the time this tale was proposed by writer/writers to convert tribal groupings from polytheism to monotheism, there could have been extensive rebuttals by the status quo. None of which have survived. So, to say that the tale was accepted as---um---gospel, might be over-reaching.