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Was Moses married to a black women?

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  • 8 years ago
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    Yes, Zipporah was technically "black" as you call it. In the Bible, it uses a specific term for it (I can't remember the word) but the people that were a part of this group were of a darker skin color, so that is how I know. She most likely had ebony colored skin. That was why Miriam, Moses' sister, spoke against him and God got angry with her for doing this.

  • 8 years ago

    yes. Moses' first wife Zipporah was "Shemitic" (descended of Noah's son Shem). However, Moses married a second time to a woman from Ethiopia (Kush)--whose name is never mentioned. One has to remember that Moses grew up in Egypt. This can be found in the Bible: Numbers 12: 1-15.

    To correct the above, He married a Kushite woman. Kushite's were the southern neighbors of Egypt which is modern day Ethiopia and Sudan.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Midianite.... might or will possibly no longer have been black. Heck, Jews might have been 'black' back then. and surely, on the time of the marriage, Moses had in basic terms in the near previous escaped from Egypt after murdering an Egyptian. He hadn't seen the burning bush yet, hadn't led the Israelites to Mt Sinai yet, and subsequently the regulation had no longer even been given yet.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    We don't know what Moses's wife looked like, and we don't know what Moses himself looked like, assuming they actually existed. The Middle East is and has always been very multicultural, with people ranging in color from very dark to very white. Jewish people do not look like sub-Saharan black people -- they are not black as we understand the term today -- but a lot of them have dark hair and eyes and olive skin. In earlier ages, that coloring could be called "black" or "dark" without meaning black in the modern sense.

    However, there were also ancient Jews who were fair-skinned blondes or redheads.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    "woman"

    Traditional understanding of the Bible teaches that he was (his second wife).

    However, a more objective, modern, Hebrew-language-savvy understanding makes that claim very questionable.

    Certainly his wife (or his second wife according to the traditional view) could have been "Black". For that matter: Moses **himself** could have been "Black". We simply do not have sufficient information to provide a confident answer.

    - Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/

  • 8 years ago

    The Bible is not fully clear on this, but it does indicate that he married a dark skinned woman, because Miriam came against him for it and became angry. God released His anger upon the people for what they did, which indicates that God does not respect skin color, and neither should we. There are only two colors in God's eyes, red (the blood of His son) and non-red.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Everyone in the Bible was whiter than white, they all spoke English and had middle class incomes. Didn't you know that?

  • jc7
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    How do u know she was black....or how do you know what color moses was...what if moses was black...

  • 8 years ago

    Zipporah was a mulatto. Moses himself was a ventriloquist, and god was his dummy.

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