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Want to know what the Bible says about Blacks? Here are 18 Bible verses about Blacks from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Numbers 12:1 NIV
Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite.
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Luke 23:26 NIV
As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.
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Acts 13:1 NIV
Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.
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Song of Solomon 1:5 NIV
Dark am I, yet lovely,
    daughters of Jerusalem,
dark like the tents of Kedar,
    like the tent curtains of Solomon.
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Proverbs 3:5 NIV
Trust in the Lord with all your heart
    and lean not on your own understanding;
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Jeremiah 13:23 NIV
Can an Ethiopian change his skin
    or a leopard its spots?
Neither can you do good
    who are accustomed to doing evil.
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Genesis 1:26 NIV
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
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Job 30:30 NIV
My skin grows black and peels;
    my body burns with fever.
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Acts 10:34 NIV
Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism
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Song of Solomon 1:6 NIV
Do not stare at me because I am dark,
    because I am darkened by the sun.
My mother’s sons were angry with me
    and made me take care of the vineyards;
    my own vineyard I had to neglect.
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Amos 9:7 NIV
“Are not you Israelites
    the same to me as the Cushites ?”
declares the Lord.
“Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt,
    the Philistines from Caphtor
    and the Arameans from Kir?
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Genesis 9:25 NIV
he said,
“Cursed be Canaan!
    The lowest of slaves
    will he be to his brothers.
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Psalm 68:31 NIV
Envoys will come from Egypt;
    Cush will submit herself to God.
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Genesis 10:6 NIV
The sons of Ham:Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.
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Revelation 1:15 NIV
His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters.
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Leviticus 19:19 NIV
“‘Keep my decrees.
“‘Do not mate different kinds of animals.
“‘Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed.
“‘Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.
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Deuteronomy 23:2 NIV
No one born of a forbidden marriage nor any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.
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