It says - "And the first came out red all over like a hairy garment" How does that make him an albino?
Dec 01 2003, 5:58 PM
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In the Bible, Edomites are whites that descended from an albino named Essau who was born ruddy (red) & hairy. (Gen. 25:25) The Bible refers to white skin as leprosy (Num. 12:10-12, Lev. 13) and reports that a race of people (Gahazites) were born white due to being cursed! (II Kings 5:27) Bible scholars credit Japheth (a son of Noah) as fathering a (Black) people who settled in the north, ultimately becoming the Caucasian race. Similarly, other scholars theorize that Africans who migrated to Europe and were caught in the Ice Age, gradually lightened until their genes mutated to adapt to the scant sunlight, thus producing a race of whites. http://biblehub.com/genesis/25-25.htm
Response last updated by CmdrK on Aug 23 2016.
Dec 01 2003, 6:24 PM
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