Women in Genesis, Cain's mysterious wife

The creation of Adam and Eve is quite interesting, for Adam is created directly from the dust of the earth, and Eve is created from Adam's rib. Therefore, Eve's creation is totally dependent on Adam's existence. Quite telling of the patriarchal society in which Genesis was written, and of the nature of the Bible in general; that is, it's man-made. Further evidence is found in chapter 4 of Genesis, when the 3rd and 4th human beings arrive: Cain and Abel. Adam and Eve bear Cain and Abel, Cain kills Abel, and is cast out of the land by God. Mysteriously, once banished, we find Cain with a wife. Here we see that the woman's existence is not worth mentioning until she has something to do with a man, Cain, just as Eve was not worth creating until Adam realized he needed a suitable companion. Now, where in the hell did this woman come from? There's no explanation. And why should we expect one? In the previous chapter a talking animal outwits an adult human being and convinces her to disobey the creator of the very world in which she lives. By tempting her to eat fruit. Fruit which dispenses moral knowledge. And what is the first moral lesson revealed to Adam and Eve from the ingestion of the fruit? That nudity is shameful. Their unclothed genitals, crafted by God himself, somehow comprise a moral shame revealed to them by fruit containing the knowledge of good and evil, plucked from a tree deliberately placed within their reach by God the creator himself.

If only the problem stemmed from a loss in translation.