I read in the BIBLE one time about not mixing races ( whites dateing blacks & such ) ........?

Question

Does any one know where I read it? Im not a raceist , I have best friends that are of a different race I was just trying to remember where I read it.

Answer 1

The prohibition of marriage is not based on the color of ones skin, but it is based on their beliefs. Ezra and Nehemiah rebuked the Jews for marrying outside of their faith. Ezra dissolved the marriages (Ezra 10:11), Nehemiah rebuked them and called curses down on them. (Nehemiah 13:25).
The prohibition was then explained further when Jesus commanded not to be unequally yoked. Whether it is with a nonbeliever or with a believer in a different religion.
Solomon was led astray because he married women of different beliefs. (Nehemiah 13:26).
Therefore, there is nothing wrong with marrying a person of a different race. There are many things wrong with marrying someone of a different spiritual belief.

Answer 2

There's a lot of rules in the Torah (first five books of the Bible) about not mixing various things. The Hebrews weren't allowed to marry some members of other tribes and certain Hebrews weren't allowed to marry certain other types of people. However, it never says whites and blacks can't date because the concept of race, much less of a white race and a black race, had not been invented yet. (The idea of race as we understand it is only about 500 years old.)

For example:
Not to marry non-Jews Deut. 7:3

Not to let Moabite and Ammonite males marry into the Jewish people Deut. 23:4

Not to prevent a third-generation Egyptian convert from marrying into the Jewish people Deut. 23:8-9

Not to refrain from marrying a third generation Edomite convert Deut. 23:8-9

Not to let a mamzer (a child born due to an illegal relationship) marry into the Jewish people Deut. 23:3

Not to let a eunuch marry into the Jewish people Deut. 23:2

Answer 3

It is in the Bible, but it is not blacks and whites mixing. The Hebrew people were not to marry the heathen gentiles. God did not want the foreign idol worshipers infiltrating the Hebrew people.

Now, we've never seen a black person or a white person. I'm considered white and my skin is tannish, pinkish brown, but not white. Even the Albino skin has pink and some brown in it. Most black people are dark brown or light brown, but not black. Some are so sun exposed that portions of their body looks black but they still have more dark, dark brown on their body.

All skin tones came from the medium brown pigment skin of the Middle East.

God didn't curse anybody and make their skin black as the old wive's tale goes from Syriacs of ancient false religion time. This is a false saying just like the gnostic gospel is false doctrine. Strictly skin pigmentation, because there is no verse in the Bible saying that when Cain slew Abel that God turned Cain's skin black and this was his mark so no man would kill him. I've heard this all my life and it is false, false, false.

Answer 4

In 2 Corinthians 6: 14 it says that believers should not be unequally yoked with nonbelievers. Some people have twisted this to mean that whites and blacks should not marry, but there is nothing in the scriptures that prohibits any two believers from marrying. The Old Testament verses are limited to the nation of Israel and do not continue with the new covenant of Jesus Christ. Paul addressed these arguments when he said that circumcision was not required to be a member of the Christian community.

Answer 5

Some people think this, but it is not Biblical.
There's absolutely nothing in the Bible saying not to mix races.
The only thing you might be thinking of is the Jews were to stay married into their own tribes. this is because Jesus was to come from a certain line, and it had to be kept pure. It has nothing to do with anyone else.
the only other thing I can think of is the tower of babel. Where God mixed up their languages, so they couldn't converse, because they were trying to exalt themselves by building this really tall tower, and God didn't like it. So he changed their languages, and they all went different ways. I believe the races came from Noah's family after the flood, and that came through the marriages of his sons.
But, as far as I know, it's not against God to marry out of your race. God Bless

Answer 6

I've never read that. The closest thing I remember is the nation of Israel being told not to intermarry with the nations around them, but that was because of religion more than race. The nations around them were idolatrous nations, several times, we see that when someone from the other nations converted to Judaism, they were accepted. (Such as the Story of Ruth, who was a Moabite, and yet ended up in the lineage for Christ.

I am not sure of the scripture reference though.

God does not forbid interracial marriage as much as interfaith marriage, we should not be unequally yoked with unbelievers.

Answer 7

No, not race...it's mixing religions. Pagan and Jewish...and so forth...this is where people get this from. There was a mixing of color, concubines, wives and such for the kings...there is no issue in race....only religion.

Answer 8

Never in the Catholic bible does it say that. Races were never mentioned, just different ethnicities during that time period in that region like the Romans, Armenians, Persians ect. There could have been a mention of the old traditions of that time which is to marry someone from your tribe. For example israelities should not marry babylonians because they were enemies. But races like white, black, and asian were never mentioned.

Answer 9

You never read that in the bible. People who ask such questions usually have never even read the book, and don't intend to, just want someone else to do the work for them.

Answer 10

If God wanted us to mix he would have made us that way. He made the blacks & all races on the 6 day, but on the 8th day he maked the race Christ would come through. Why did he destroy the first world age? Have you read.