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God did not merely create Eve to be in service of Adam but to help him arranged by man, God had to be the One to allow such a marriage.

Some people insist that the Bible meant for the races to remain pure, therefore prohibiting any kind of interracial marriage. Usually two biblical texts are drawn upon to support that view. One is the fact that Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. As you recall, Shem received a patriarchal blessing, and an enlargement of that was given to Japheth. Some have neatly contrived from the three sons of Noah, three survivors of the flood, that this is the historic basis for the three basic generic types of human beings: the Caucasian, the Negroid, and the Mongoloid.

They claim that this is the biblical justification for there being a curse put on the black race, and white people should have no intermarriage with them. This was cited, for example, in the early documents of Mormonism, which was a great embarrassment to them when it was made public a few years ago. In the case of both these arguments, I would say that that is the flimsiest evidence I can think of to support what is ultimately a racist view of the matter.

Any couple that chooses to get married in a culture that has a high degree of racism is asking for all kinds of tension directed against their marriage. I think one of the strongest texts that does relate to this is in the Old Testament, where we read that Moses who was the mediator of the old covenant took to himself a wife who was a Cushite.

A Cushite was an Ethiopian. We also read that his sister, Miriam, became very distressed by the fact that her brother married a Cushite. It was a racist reaction. Miriam got angry and rebuked Moses.