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BerianAardvark -> RE: Help Please (6/21/2008 2:20:02 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Mysterious101
I need help finding the story about the first colored person in the bible if you can help me i thank you so much [&:]
That would be quite a task as the Bible doesn't really pay much attention to a person's skin color, but the condition of their heart.
That sort of reduces us to speculation based upon the country or area that the person came from.
If by colored you mean "black" odds are that you need to look for Ethiopians or Nubians.
Ethiopia may refer only to the Nile valley above the First Cataract, but in ancient as in modern times the term was often used not only to include what is now known as Nubia and the Sūdān (Soudan), but all the unknown country farther West and South, and also at times Northern, if not Southern, Abyssinia.
There aren't many details about any of the people mentioned as having been from those lands, most of the "action" takes place in lands populated by the same sort of people who are in the middle east now, sort of beige/olive.
Of all the verses I found in a quick search using Ethiopia or Nubia as the search criteria Jeremiah 38:1-13 is probably the best bet as it is about an Ethiopian who rescued Jeremiah the prophet.
You might also consider (Acts 8:27) And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
One other possibility comes to mind:
(Acts 13:1) Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Niger is pronounce NI- JER as in Nigeria, and means black...which could mean that he had dark skin, or merely dark hair and eyes.
Also bear in mind that Jesus and all of the disciples, as well as King David and the Jews themselves, as well as most of the population of that area were not white Anglo-Saxons but tended towards skin tones like those of the people in that area of the world even today.
Hopefully this helps a little.
Tim
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