What does the Bible say about the black race?

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• 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,

• 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.

• Colossians 3:11

  where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

• Genesis 11:1-32

  [1] The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. [2] It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they lived there. [3] They said one to another, "Come, let's make brick, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. [4] They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth." [5] Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. [6] Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do. [7] Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." [8] So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city. [9] Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth. [10] This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood. [11] Shem lived after he became the father of Arpachshad five hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters. [12] Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah. [13] Arpachshad lived after he became the father of Shelah four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters. [14] Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber: [15] and Shelah lived after he became the father of Eber four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters. [16] Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg. [17] Eber lived after he became the father of Peleg four hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters. [18] Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu. [19] Peleg lived after he became the father of Reu two hundred nine years, and became the father of sons and daughters. [20] Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug. [21] Reu lived after he became the father of Serug two hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters. [22] Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor. [23] Serug lived after he became the father of Nahor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters. [24] Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah. [25] Nahor lived after he became the father of Terah one hundred nineteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters. [26] Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. [27] Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot. [28] Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees. [29] Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah. [30] Sarai was barren. She had no child. [31] Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran, and lived there. [32] The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.

• Genesis 9:1-29

  [1] God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. [2] The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand. [3] Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you. [4] But flesh with the life of it, the blood of it, you shall not eat. [5] I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man. [6] Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man. [7] Be fruitful, and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it." [8] God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, [9] "As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, [10] and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every animal of the earth with you. Of all that go out of the ark, even every animal of the earth. [11] I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither will there any more be a flood to destroy the earth." [12] God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: [13] I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. [14] It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, [15] and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. [16] The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." [17] God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth." [18] The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan. [19] These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated. [20] Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard. [21] He drank of the wine, and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent. [22] Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. [23] Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn't see their father's nakedness. [24] Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him. [25] He said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants will he be to his brothers." [26] He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem; Let Canaan be his servant. [27] God enlarge Japheth, Let him dwell in the tents of Shem; Let Canaan be his servant." [28] Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood. [29] All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.

• 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.

• 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 3:1-24

  [1] Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'" [2] The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat, [3] but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'" [4] The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die, [5] for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." [6] When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate. [7] Both of their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. [8] They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. [9] Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?" [10] The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself." [11] God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?" [12] The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate." [13] Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." [14] Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. [15] I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel." [16] To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." [17] To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. [18] Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. [19] By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return." [20] The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living. [21] Yahweh God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them. [22] Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..." [23] Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. [24] So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

• Genesis 10:6

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

• 2 Corinthians 6:14

  Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what communion has light with darkness?

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