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Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.

When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus.

I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.

For there is no partiality with God.

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?” says Yahweh. “Haven’t I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.

Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.

He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country; and the white went out after them; and the dappled went out toward the south country.”

A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the field also have I given him to serve him.

His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven.

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. — read the full passage →

that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.

They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those who lived there before were of Ham.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck, until he has destroyed you. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall keep my statutes. “‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals. “‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; “‘neither shall there come upon you a garment made of two kinds of material.

Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. — read the full passage →

The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking out with boils on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt.”

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses;

I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons, nor takes reward.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you would never see it again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.

“‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.

Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood. — read the full passage →

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, — read the full passage →

“‘If a man takes his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing. They shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness. He shall bear his iniquity.

If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate the person infected with itching seven days.

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and Yahweh’s glory filled the house. — read the full passage →

Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.