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Are you sure my brother?That is a common misconception that many people have about Cain and his other brother Seth marrying their sisters.Hollie answered that, but to be clear, they married each other, which was OK at the time...clearly.
Adam and Eve were the first people to have souls and to know God.
But they were not the first people to inhabit the earth.
Think about it......after Cain killed Able; the Torah says that God put a "mark" on Cain so that people wouldn't kill him as he wandered the earth.
So clearly there were other people and settlements throughout the land.
And this explains how he and his brother Seth were able to find wives to marry.
Nowhere in the Bible did it state a timeline during that time.
The Bible is an accurate history of the world, however, just like the history of the world, it covers the main stories, not every story in existence.
We know of Cain and Able b/c they were the FIRST borns, not to mention that their story also was the first murder.
Clearly they had brothers and sisters, which covers the "people" that you brought up.