What does the Bible say about black people?

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• Galatians 3:28

  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.

• Acts 13:1

  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.

• Acts 17:26

  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,

• Song of Solomon 1:5

  I am dark, but lovely, You daughters of Jerusalem, Like Kedar's tents, Like Solomon's curtains.

• Song of Solomon 1:6

  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.

• Romans 2:11

  For there is no partiality with God.

• Jeremiah 13:23

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

• Song of Solomon 5:11

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

• Numbers 12:1

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

• Genesis 10:1-32

  [1] 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. [2] The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. [3] The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. [4] The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. [5] Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations. [6] The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. [7] The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. [8] Cush became the father of Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. [9] He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh." [10] The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. [11] Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, [12] and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city). [13] Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, [14] Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim. [15] Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth, [16] the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite, [17] the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite, [18] the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad. [19] The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha. [20] These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations. [21] To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born. [22] The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. [23] The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. [24] Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber. [25] To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided. His brother's name was Joktan. [26] Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, [27] Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, [28] Obal, Abimael, Sheba, [29] Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. [30] Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east. [31] These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations. [32] These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

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