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Moses’ first wife was a Black woman<\/strong>. When Miriam and Aaron spoke poorly of the marriage, God became very angry with them. Numbers 12:1-15, “And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman<\/strong> whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman…(God responded) ‘Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?’ The anger of the LORD burned against them<\/strong>, and he left them. When the cloud lifted from above the Tent, there stood Miriam — leprous, like snow<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

King Solomon wrote “The Song of Solomon,” a love song. He is thought to be represented by the bridegroom, while his bride is dark-skinned. She says, “I am black but lovely…” Song of Solomon 1:5 (NASB). No judgment is given against this relationship<\/strong>. Additionally, the book is a picture of the love Jesus has for His church. If interracial marriage were prohibited, it would picture a forbidden union. This is certainly not the case.<\/p>\n

Israel<\/strong> was commanded not to marry foreigners<\/strong>; however, the purpose was to prevent idolatry – there was no mention of problems with interracial marriage<\/strong>. Deuteronomy 7:3,4, “You shall not intermarry with them (the people the Israelites were to conquer<\/em>), giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods.”<\/p>\n

The apostle Paul exhorts Christians to marry only other Christians. 2 Corinthians 6:14 (ESV), “Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?” The principle again is the problem of uniting a righteous person with a worldly person. Believers love God and want to follow Jesus. Marriage with unbelievers can hurt a believer’s holy life. But no where<\/strong> in the New Testament is there a scripture about choosing a spouse with the same skin color<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moses’ first wife was a Black woman. When Miriam and Aaron spoke poorly of the marriage, God became very angry with them. Numbers 12:1-15, “And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman…(God responded) ‘Why then were you not afraid to speak against … Continue reading “Does the Bible speak to interracial marriage?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}