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• Numbers 12:1

  And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

• Luke 23:26

  And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.

• Song of Solomon 1:5

  I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

• Romans 2:11

  For there is no respect of persons with God.

• Acts 13:1

  Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

• Jeremiah 13:23

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

• Genesis 1:26

  And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

• Song of Solomon 1:6

  Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

• Proverbs 3:5

  Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

• Amos 9:7

  Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

• Acts 10:34

  Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:

• Job 30:30

  My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

• Galatians 3:28

  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

• Revelation 1:15

  And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

• Psalms 68:31

  Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

• Genesis 9:25

  And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

• Deuteronomy 23:2

  A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

• Zechariah 6:6

  The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.

• Jude 1:13

  Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

• Genesis 9:1–29

  And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. …

• Song of Solomon 5:11

  His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

• Romans 5:8

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

• Jeremiah 27:6

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

• Revelation 4:3

  And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

• 1 Chronicles 4:40

  And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.

• Genesis 2:7

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