A) INTRODUCTION.

B) CLARIFICATION.

C) OTHER TEXTS.

D) TO BE CLEAR.

 

 

A) INTRODUCTION

 

 

According to Deuteronomy 7:3-4:

 

[3] “Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. 

[4] “For they will turn away thy son from following Me, that they may serve other gods:  so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.”

 

Some may use these texts to prove that one should not marry outside of one’s own race.  However, this Command had nothing to do with skin color or ethnicity.  But rather, it was directed more towards a religious aspect.  Deuteronomy 7:4 is very clear why our God did not want His people to marry other people in the area.  The instruction is for us today, such as not to marry outside of your belief system; whatever it may be.  Satanist should marry Satanists if they wish to have a happy marriage (good luck with that).

 

 

B) CLARIFICATION

 

 

Malachi 2:11 clarifies this very point:  “Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which He loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.”

 

 

C) OTHER TEXTS

 

 

Still others may use this text -- Second Corinthians 6:14 -- to conclude that one should not marry outside of one’s race:

 

“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:  for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”

 

By contrast, this text only clearly states why the Deuteronomy 7:3-4 instruction was given and what usually happens when God’s people decide to marry unbelievers; as in Malachi 2:11 above.

 

 

D) TO BE CLEAR

 

 

To be clear, had God not allowed His people to marry outside of their own race, He would have condemned the marriage of Moses to an Ethiopian (Num. 12:1 = Zipporah).  And although she was not black, she had a darker complexion than the Israelites.  She was also a Midianite (Exo. 2:15).  In fact, had the complaints of “Miriam and Aaron” which they “spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married,” Numbers 12:1, been agreed with by our Lord, instead of inflicting Miriam with leprosy (Num. 12:10), our Lord most likely would have had Moses dispose of her (see Ezra, Chapter 10; and also, where Nehemiah, in Chapter 13, has the people send their “strange wives” away).

 

Also, one (Salmon) of the two spies (Jos. 2:1) married Rahab, who ends up being the mother of Boaz, who married Ruth, a Moabites’, all of whom are in the genealogical line of Christ.  Romans 10:12:  “For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek:  for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him.”

 

Therefore, our clearest instruction Biblically on who one should marry is found in Second Corinthians 6:14, and is only restrictive in the sense that God restricts throughout His Word. And that is, “Marry only believers of the Only True God.”

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