Ancient Israeli Jews looked like Egyptians & Ethiopians

"MANY, again, say that they were a a RACE OF ETHIOPIAN ORIGIN, who in the time of king Cepheus were driven by fear and hatred of their neighbors to seek a new dwelling-place."
(c. 110 CE)

Exodus 2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
Exodus 2:17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
Exodus 2:18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you are come so soon to day?
Exodus 2:19 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.

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The Acts 21:37 And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said to the chief captain, May I speak to you? Who said, Can you speak Greek?
The Acts 21:38 ARE NOT YOU THAT EGYPTIAN, which before these days made an uproar, and led out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
The Acts 21:39 But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech you, suffer me to speak to the people.

"In Egypt, therefore, this nation is powerful, because the Jews were Egyptians, and because the land wherein they inhabit, since they went from there, is near to Egypt."
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"But this fine fellow Apion seems to
mention this reproachful name against us [that
we were originally Egyptians], in order to bestow it on the Alexandrians, as a reward for the privilege they had given him of being a fellow citizen with them: he also is apprised of the ill-willt he Alexandrians bear to those Jews who are their fellow citizens, and so proposes to himself to reproach them, although he mustthereby include all the other Egyptians also; while in both cases he is no better than an impudent liar."
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"I once, indeed, thought it best not to set down the names of this family, especially because of their difficult pronunciation [by the Greeks]; ith (177) but, upon the whole, I think it necessary | of to mention those names, that I may disprove such as believe that we came not originally from Mesopotamia, but ARE EGYPTIANS."

All facts
1st century Jew Josephus

[bufficliff]

Egyptians looked the same then as they do now: various tones of tan. Ethiopians and Egyptians look different. Israelis look different.

My dad is dark tan; my mom looks white. There are white-looking Egyptians in paintings and darker looking Egyptians in paintings because the wealthy wouldn't get so dark and had lighter skin when closer to the Mediterranean and if the papyrus or stone they were working on were the color of skin they wouldn't neglect to paint--they'd use a different but recognizable color like kids do to this day when they color skin tones on coloring sheets. Using the options available to them and depending on the background color of their sheet they select a recognizable option even if it's not accurate.

There were and are darker and lighter Egyptians.

I don't know what the point of this video is, though.

[brotherenoch]

Thank You for dropping some historical truths!

We know there will be some, who have eyes but cannot see…
There will be some who have ears but cannot hear.

[malachi]

“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.”
Jeremiah 13:23

[MarilynWiseman-rqoj]

Ramese was a Hamite. Jospeh one of the twelve tribes of Israel, had children with an Egyptian.

[rubiesofgold]

I tend to think that each Israelite tribe looked physically different. There’s got to be an explanation for how people looked at someone and knew exactly what tribe they were in.

[heyheychill]

Everyone looked like Egyptians back then

[davemclennan]

why do we persist in making everything about skin tones! Get a grip dude! God made us all and sat back and said it is

[Treesinus]

The point is ..She took in her “enemys” child… as others allowed him to die….

[apex]

I heard that a black man invented the space ship.

[OldManMontgomery]

Rather sketchy to presume an Egyptian wall painting from the time of Moses - in the proximity of 1400 B. C.
and likely 'restored' at least once likely - is accurate as to skin tone.
However, all those people did live in the same area as the rest of all those people and ventured out by day in the same sunlight. They ate pretty much the same diet and lived in by and large the same kind of house. They didn't all speak the same language, but
Hebrew (same as Babylonian?) is Semitic just like Egyptian. I don't think accepting the presumption they all looked alike is all that far out of bounds.

[beecee]

Wait until you realize they were red not black. White skin painted with red ochre. 🤣

[johnmann]

Exodus 2:24
- Ruhama Avraham, Roman Abramovich, Henry Abramson, Dan Abrams
- Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak, Dalia Itzik, Shahar Isaac, Jason Isaacs, Barak Yitzhaki, Rabbi Shimon Isaacson, Yoav Yizchak
- Rabbi YY Jacobson, Gad Yaacobi, Simcha Jacobovici, Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs

1 Chronicles 2:1-2
- Rami Levy, Gershon HaCohen, Steve Cohen, Ellie Cohanim, Yariv Levin, Adam Levine, Batya Levinthal, Tsahi HaLevi,
- Gal Gadot, Yosef Ba Gad, Josh Gad
- Rabbi Yaron Reuven, Milton Rubenfeld, David Rubenstein, Simon Reuben, David Reuben, Kevin Rubin
- Danny Danon, Yohanan Danino, Yaakov Zada Daniel, Yuval Dayan
- Haim Ben-Asher, Ya’akov Asher
- Hananya Naftali, Ori Naftaly
- Joe Zevuloni, Itay Zvulun
- Rabbi Shlomo Yehuda, Monte Judah, Eliezer Ben Yehuda
- Yafit Josephson, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Tomer Yosefi, Oded Menashe, Molly Ephraim, Ari Ben Menashe, Mark Ifraimov, Allison Josephs
- Avi Issacharoff, Naama Issachar
- Paul Simon, Daniel Ben-Simon, Itamar Shimoni, Ran Ben Shimon, Kobi Shimony, Rabbi Moshe Shimonov
- Yoav Benjamini, Ben Binyamin, Yuhan Benjamin

Towns
- Guni Israeli, Benjamin Disraeli
- Raphael Jerusalemy, David Yerushalmi
- May Golan (1 Chronicles 6:71)
- Omer Adam (Joshua 3:16)
- Ofri Arad (Judges 1:16)
- Izhar Ashdot (1 Samuel 5:1)
- Maya Maron, Hanna Meron (Nehemiah 3:7)
- Nathan Goshen (Genesis 46:28)
- Moshe Sinai (Exodus 19:1)
- Shai Efrati (Genesis 35:16)
- Noam Arnon (Numbers 21:24)
- Rami Jaffee, Rabbi Dov Yaffe (Jonah 1:3)
- Yosef Shiloach (Isaiah 8:6)
- Mati Shoshani, Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan (Esther 1:2)
- Noa Tishby (1 Kings 17:1)
- Mordechai Kedar (Psalm 120:5)
- Dudi Sela (Judges 1:36)
- Aviv Alush (Numbers 33:13-14)
- Yoni Eilat (2 Chronicles 26:2)
- Ariel Sharon (1 Chronicles 27:29)
- Yitzhak Shamir (Judges 10:1)

[rjmprod]

If you want to tell the real racist from others, just listen to the people that talk about color and everything they do, and say, and how color is the most distinguishing factor above quality of a human…..!