i didn't know that Moses married a black girl.
here is something i found off wikipedia.
Moses soon discovered from a higher source that the affair was known, and that Pharaoh was likely to put him to death for it; he therefore made his escape to the Sinai peninsula and settled with Hobab, or Jethro, priest of Midian, whose daughter Zipporah he in due time married. There he sojourned forty years, following the occupation of a shepherd, during which time his son Gershom was born. In Numbers 12, Miriam and Aaron taunt Moses for marrying a "Cushite" (literally an Ethiopian). Josephus explains the marriage of Moses to this Ethiopian in the Antiquities of the Jews (see Moses in History in the later part of this article).
2006-08-18 09:56:41 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Didn't know that.
Do you know a Lloyd? Is his hair gray? Should be. "Lloyd" comes from the Welsh meaning gray.
2006-08-18 10:10:07 · answer #1 · answered by Sam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is true, that Moses had an interracial marriage which raised some eyebrows.
He was raised between two cultures, Jewish and Egyptian. He murdered an Egyptian, and fled to Midian where he lived with the family of Jethro, who practiced a different religion -- there he meets Zipporah, a black woman, whom he falls in love with. Plus he has a speech impediment.
With all this against him, it is no wonder he asks, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh?" when God calls him at the burning bush to deliver the people of Israel from Egyptian slavery.
Sooooo....one lesson here might be that God may be more open-minded about things than we are ---and that many things we feel are strikes against us don't really count in the grand scheme of things.
2006-08-18 17:25:17 · answer #2 · answered by Ponderingwisdom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Cleopatra of Egypt (actually a Macedonian), 'the face that can launch a thousand ships', was also black. I think people in the olden times were not aware of skin colors. They do care to know from what kingdom you come from because of tribal factions.
2006-08-18 17:14:27 · answer #3 · answered by JR P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are all God's children. The greater diversity of the DNA, the stronger, if there are no bad things there. Abraham's wife was his half sister. Many stories in the bible would not be accepted in other books at most libraries.
2006-08-18 17:06:26 · answer #4 · answered by Pey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moses was down wit the brown.
2006-08-18 17:05:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
did you know king Solomon was black???
heck out the first verse of Song of Solomon
swarthy means black...
2006-08-18 18:10:59 · answer #6 · answered by wollemi_pine_writer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cool.
2006-08-18 17:02:04 · answer #7 · answered by UVRay 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I knew that. Why? Is there something strange about that?
2006-08-18 17:01:09 · answer #8 · answered by Quinn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not see the relivance
2006-08-18 17:04:22 · answer #9 · answered by Mim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does it really matter?
2006-08-18 17:00:47 · answer #10 · answered by Rance D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋