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Okay, I am confused. The Bible very clearly speaks out against miscegenation, but Moses also apparently married an Ethiopian women who is described as Cushite (ack or African). He even rebukes some people that criticise him for marrying her.
Speaking as someone who is mixed race themself, a d not happy about it, this seems a bit confusing. Was Moses marrying an Ethiopian fine because he was a Prophet?
Joshua 23:12-13
12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
13 Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.
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Christianity never labored under a greater curse than the many mistranslation of the King James Bible. Longer response but it addresses your concerns.
The discrepancies in God's word resulting from these mistranslations were often used as the foundation for conflicting doctrines. You can never safely rely upon what we find in the English translation until you have checked it in a good lexicon. The best reference is the Hebrew and Greek dictionaries used in Strong’s
Exhaustive Concordance, which is more thorough than most of the others. We often find that defective scholarship in early translations has become accepted as doctrine. It is continued, although the original word will not support the meaning given it in the translation. On Moses and his wife. In Numbers 12:1, the Hebrew does not say Ethiopian it says Cush, a descendant of Cush, or a resident of the land of Cush. Remember that Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. Genesis 10:6 tells us the sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan, Noah and his wife were both White Adamic, so all their children naturally were of the same race.
One of Ham’s sons was Mizraim, meaning Egyptian. We know from all the Egyptian art, including their marvelously fine portrait sculptures during all the many centuries of Egypt’s greatness that they were a pure White people. In fact during this time, any negro found in Egypt, other than a slave working in chains in the fields, was summarily killed on sight. This is depicted all over their temples and pylons. Ham’s other son Cush was without question White. What do we know about the land of Cush?
There were two different countries named Cush in Bible times, one was Ethiopia, lying south of the Sudan in Africa. There was another Cush that was in eastern Mesopotamia what at other times was part of the Babylonian empire. These people were not a black race at any time. This Cush flourished about 1500 B.C., during the time of Moses, the exodus from Egypt occurred in 1486 B.C.. Who can we expect to find living in this Cush, on the east side of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, from what people that lived there did Moses take his wife? Note there is absolutely nothing anywhere in the Bible which says, or even hints, that Moses was ever in Ethiopia or any place else, where he could have found a negro woman to marry. The Bible does tell us where Moses got his wife, or who she was. Remember Moses had killed an Egyptian who was beating an Israelite.
Exodus 2:15-21 says
“Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well. And the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon today? And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us and watered the flock. And he said unto his daughters, Why is it that ye have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread. And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.” We know Moses married the daughter of the priest of Midian. Who were the Midianites, from whom Moses got a wife? Their lineage was mentioned earlier.
Genesis 25:1-2 tells us that after the death of his wife Sarah,
“Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. And she bore him Zimram, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.” Midian was a son of Abraham. Abraham had been told by God the great promises would be fulfilled by his son Isaac, not through any of his other sons. Therefore he gave his inheritance only to Isaac, but he loved his other sons also and dealt fairly with them. Genesis 25:6 says
“But unto the sons of the concubines which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward into the east country.”
Logically he would want them to move more than just a few miles away, as the whole idea was to send them far enough away that they would not be neighbors of Isaac, and perhaps quarrel with him over the inheritance. The next place of any importance to which they could go was Cush. Cush was in the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the same country which at other times was part of the important Babylonian empire. So Midian and his descendants became Cushites, people living in the kingdom of Cush. By race they were descendants of Abraham closely related to Isaac and his descendants the Israelites. However they remained a separate nation and never became part of Israel. Since this is the only wife the Bible tells us Moses had, it is clear she was a Midianite, whose family lived in Cush in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys. This is where Moses would logically have found his wife.
Moses fled for his life because the Pharaoh of Egypt wanted to kill him. Moses could not have gone to just some tiny neighboring kingdom to stay. A neighboring kingdom would not have dared to give Moses shelter, but would have turned him over to Pharaoh as soon as the Egyptians learned he was there and made a demand for him. Therefore, Moses fled a safe distance, to a land where the people did not live in fear of the powerful Egyptian empire. He went to Cush, among whose people were the Midianites.
It is certain that Moses never married a negro. Remember he was brought up in Pharaoh’s palace as the adopted son of Pharaoh’s daughter. He was educated as an Egyptian of the royal family. The Egyptians considered the negroes as wild animals to be killed on sight. The son of royalty would not take a wife from the negro Cush in Africa. It was while Moses was guarding the flocks of his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, that God appeared to him in the burning bush. This was when Moses was commissioned by God to go to Egypt to set His people Israel free.
When Moses returned to his own people, he taught them their proud heritage as God’s people Israel. He also taught them that they must keep their lineage pure. His brother Aaron and his sister Miriam taunted Moses about his marriage outside the strictly limited group of Israel. It is true Moses had married a woman who was not an Israelite, however, she was not only a White woman, but a descendant of Abraham, a close relative of the Israelites. So this matter of the wife of Moses can’t be used as a justification for race mixing, Moses did not marry outside the White Adamic race,
We can continue this in the Kangz thread if you have anymore concerns.
