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j"19HxigV4QyBv3tHpQVcUEQyq1pzZVdoAutMƒMoses Did Not Marry a Negress Now to discuss the wife of Moses, and her true identity. The common perception in the mainstream churches is that Moses had married a negress, because in one verse in the Book of Numbers it says that his wife came from “Ethiopia”. This is based upon a childishly ignorant view of Scripture and history, simply because there is a land called Ethiopia today, over 3,500 years later, which is inhabited by negroes. The verse is found at Numbers 12:1: “And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.” The word Ethiopian here is from Strong's #3571, which is Cushite. Yet without getting into the history of Ethiopia, which we shall do in small part at the end of Acts chapter 8, here we will state that it is clear through the lens of the New Testament, esteeming the words of Stephen here in Acts chapter 7, that these early Christians, who were indeed Hebrews, understood that Moses' wife came from the regions east of the land of Canaan, where the “land of Madiam”, or Midian, was located. Genesis chapter 25 explains the origin of Midian: “1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. 2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. 3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. 4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. 5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. 6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.” Midian was therefore a son of Abraham. Exodus chapter 2 tells us precisely where Moses fled to, and where he obtained his wife, less than 400 years after Abraham sent his son Midian off to “the east country” : “15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing [Moses' killing of the Egyptian], he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well. 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. 18 And when they came to Reuel [also called Jethro in various places] their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day? 19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock. 20 And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread. 21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.” It is clear from Acts 7 and Numbers 10, that Zipporah was a Midianite, from the land of Midian east of Palestine. We also see in Genesis chapter 37 that it was Midianites who rescued Joseph from the pit and sold him into slavery, whereby he ended up in Egypt. By this account we see that Midianites commonly traversed the land of Canaan. Numbers 10: “29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.” Here in Numbers 10:29 Raguel, or Reuel as the name appears in Exodus 2:18, is perceived to be a pious man. At Numbers 3:1 Moses' father-in-law is called “the priest of Midian”, and the Midianites were children of Abraham through the concubine, Keturah. It is very clear, throughout the entire Biblical narrative from Genesis through the books of Judges, Kings and Chronicles, that the land of Midian was to the east of Palestine, and not very far from it, because the children of Israel had recorded their interactions with Midianites in those very regions all throughout those Scriptures. We cannot simply assume, however, that the statement in Numbers 12:1, calling Zipporah an Ethiopian, is wrong. Nor can we assume that it necessarily contradicts all of these other Scriptures. Rather, we must be able to explain from a historical perspective just how she may have been considered an Ethiopian while all of those other Scriptures that explain that she was a Midianite are certainly also valid. In the earliest Greek records, there are two lands called Ethiopia. One was to the far south of Egypt, and while it was mentioned by them, it was scarcely known to the most ancient Greeks. Another was the “Ethiopia of the east”, as Herodotus called it, and it was east of Syria and the Euphrates river. One famous ancient character who came from there was Memnon, called “the Ethiopian” by the epic poets, who was credited with having fought as an ally of the Trojans, and also with having been the legendary founder of Susa, which was later the capital city of the Persians. Historical inspection would lead one to realize that this “Ethiopia of the east” must have been a part of that entity which modern academics call the first Babylonian empire. The Ethiopia of the south was called Cush by the Hebrews, and an inspection of the early Scriptures tells us that the Hebrew name Cush first appears in Genesis relating to the four rivers which sprang from the original location of the Garden of Eden, where in Genesis 2:13 the Gihon river is said to “compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia”. Now while all four of those rivers may not be identifiable today, two others are identifiable: the Hiddekel which is believed to be the Tigris since it “goeth toward the east of Assyria”, and the Euphrates which the Hebrews called the Perath throughout Scripture. Therefore it is fully evident that the Hebrews had a land which they called Cush in the east, as the Greeks referred to an Ethiopia in the east, and it only makes sense that such a Cush must be that empire of Nimrod in Mesopotamia, since he was the son of Cush (Genesis 10:8). The empire of Nimrod was the first Babylonian empire, and its borders stretched to the land of Canaan. Therefore, the land of Midian at the time of Moses would be a part of that land of Cush, and Moses' wife Zipporah could be called a Cushite, or Ethiopian (of the east), as well as a Midianite, which was the name of her tribe. She was certainly not a negress. text/plaintexttwetch_twtext_1708995121878.txt
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