# Does the Bible warn against adulturation of the blood (mixing races) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 10, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651 "2010-04-10T17:01:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651/1 "2010-04-10T17:01:03Z")
I was linked on Facebook to the KKK Summer camp, and I came across [this](http://www.kkk.bz/kidchurch1.htm). It says that God said not to adulturate the blood, but doesn’t cite the Bible. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651/2 "2010-04-10T17:39:29Z")
Bunch of links here: > **[Miscegenation (Nave's Topical Bible)](https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Topical.show/RTD/Nave/ID/3419/Miscegenation.htm)** > > \-(The intermarrying of races or religions) -Forbidden by Abraham Genesis 24:3 -Jacob Genesis 28:1 -Moses Exodus 34:12-16; Deuteronomy 7:3, 4 -Joshua … NB. I’ve not read the site so not sure if it’s a hate site or not, and you’ll need to read the actual cites yourself to see whether you think they actually apply to miscegenation. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651/3 "2010-04-10T17:50:55Z")
Ha, ha, ha…“The Knights is leading the way…”, statues of guys in robes, special brochures for law enforcement, and pocket cards that specify if you die you don’t want your children adopted by gays…Who knew? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651/4 "2010-04-10T18:50:47Z")
I"m certain that anything in the Old Testament about mixing blood lines was probably saying that Israelites shouldn’t intermarry with the local idolators: Philistines, Midianites, etc. So at most the Bible says that Jews and Gentiles shouldn’t intermarry, because the Gentiles aren’t good enough. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651/5 "2010-04-10T18:54:18Z")
It’s pretty explicit in the Old Testament that King Solomon’s major downfall was marrying women from outside the faith, because they convinced him to build temples and offer sacrifices to gods other than YHWH. But I’m unaware of any New Testament claims on the point. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651/6 "2010-04-10T18:55:10Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > I"m certain that anything in the Old Testament about mixing blood lines was probably saying that Israelites shouldn’t intermarry with the local idolators: Philistines, Midianites, etc. > > So at most the Bible says that Jews and Gentiles shouldn’t intermarry, because the Gentiles aren’t good enough. 😛 I thought that “Gentile” was a term used by Jews to describe Christians? If so, I don’t think the Old Testament was talking about Gentiles at all. ---
**Author:** ![wunderkammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651/7 "2010-04-10T19:07:48Z")
Nope, it’s a translation of a few terms (“goy” included) used by Jews to describe non-Jews. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651/8 "2010-04-10T19:22:54Z")
> [@wunderkammer](#): > > Nope, it’s a translation of a few terms (“goy” included) used by Jews to describe non-Jews. Shucks. I was hoping that I wasn’t a Gentile. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651/9 "2010-04-10T19:29:46Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > I thought that “Gentile” was a term used by Jews to describe Christians? If so, I don’t think the Old Testament was talking about Gentiles at all. Gentile, in the lingo of the 1st century, means non-Jews. They are also often called “the uncircumcised”. The Old Testament stuff is basically saying not to marry outside of the followers of Yahweh, which doesn’t really have anything to do with race. Point in fact, the Jews were racial Canaanites. The OT went back and rewrote quite a bit o’ history. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651/10 "2010-04-11T03:49:27Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Shucks. I was hoping that I wasn’t a Gentile. Funnier is the King James Version, which translated the word as Greeks. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651/11 "2010-04-11T04:13:26Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Funnier is the King James Version, which translated the word as Greeks. Blessed are the Greeks, amirite? ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651/12 "2010-04-12T15:12:09Z")
There’s nothing about “blood.” There are injunctions not to marry idolators, especially of the seven Canaanite nations that the Israelites were supposed to wipe out, and there are a few nations who, for having treated the Israelites badly during their desert sojourn, are forbidden to allow to convert to Judaism (and even then, the traditional interpretation is that it refers to the men only and not the women). But there is no injunction against marrying foreigners of any race who genuinely converted to Judaism. Heck the Bible even allows an Israelite soldier to marry a war captive, provided they go through a certain “cooling off” period. The only “blood purities” that are mentioned in the Bible is that the offspring of an incestuous or adulterous union is forbidden to marry a properly-conceived Israelite. But that has nothing to do with race. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651/13 "2010-04-12T15:25:17Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Shucks. I was hoping that I wasn’t a Gentile. Sometimes you can be a big genital as well. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651/14 "2010-04-12T15:29:35Z")
[QUOTE= Da Klan] But even if you don’t go to church every Sunday, you still have to believe in Jesus and be a Christian to join The Knights. [/QUOTE] So then, it’s nearly unanimous. The Masons do not want me, and here I find out the KKK doesn’t either.😃 ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651/15 "2010-04-12T19:19:41Z")
IIRC, the old timers back in the day would use the quote from Genesis about God confounding the tongues at the Tower of Babel and spreading people to different parts of the earth as proof that God wanted the races of people to be separated and that “blood-mixing” with others went against God’s plan. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651/16 "2010-04-12T19:40:44Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Funnier is the King James Version, which translated the word as Greeks. In the context it was used, “Greek” was “member of the Greek-speaking cosmopolitan civilization spread throughout the eastern Mediterranean,” as opposed to “Joe Tribal, who waves barley sheaves in the air at dawn and sunset, who lives in the hills up above the city and speaks a language only 400 people or so know.” In a similar vein, during the Crusades the locals, both the Byzantines and the Saracens, and virtually anyone else, called any Westerner a “Frank” regardless of ethnicity. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651/17 "2010-04-12T19:49:34Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Blessed are the Greeks, amirite? Whadhe say? “Blessed are the geeks?” ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-bible-warn-against-adulturation-of-the-blood-mixing-races/535651/18 "2010-04-13T01:46:38Z")
> [@sqweels](#): > > Sometimes you can be a big genital as well. 😃 A bit less if he’s circumcised.😃