l of Hebrew women being taken by Egyptian men for a wife, and one of Pharaohs daughters, Bithiah, married a Hebrew man, and their children are included among the clans of Judah after the exile, in 1 Chronicles 4:17-18. Through all the generations that came and passed while in the land of Egypt it is certain that some of these people came out of the land with a mixed heritage.A perfect example of this mixed heritage is in the blood line of Moses. Many of the members of Moses family bear distinctively Egyptian names, most notably: Aaron, Hophni, Merari, Miriam, Putiel, Phinehas, and even the name of Moses himself. While most of these names may possibly have been picked by chance and not to suggest Egyptian, or Negro blood, the name Phinehas stands out as a possible indicator of the black blood that ran in Moses family. Eleazar, Moses nephew through his brother Aaron, named his first born Phinehas (Ex. 6:25) which literally means "the Nubian" or "the Negro." In addition to the possibility of black blood running in Moses ancestry it without a doubt ran through his descendants, through his Midian wife Zipporah. At one point after the escape from Egypt, Aaron and Miriam actually spoke unfavorably of Moses and his "Cu*censored*e" wife, Zipporah (Num. 12:1).In Israel and JudahThrough the time of the Judges we continue to see the emergence of Egyptian heritage in the blood lines of Moses and Aaron. The account of Eli and his two sons, from Aarons line, in 1 Samuel chapters 1 and 2, shows another example of Hebrew leaders with distinctively Egyptian names. In fact, Elis sons are named Hophni and, interestingly enough, Phinehas, again suggesting a definitive black appearance.During the period of the unified Israel, there are several references to African or Cu*censored*e women that occur during Solomons reign. First is the account of Solomons favorite wife, and Egyptian woman. Offered to Solomon as assurance of an alliance with Egypt (1 ...
