Quotes about Diversity
These diverse stories of the past that we find in the Bible are not a problem to be solved. They model for us the spiritual immediacy of the present.
— Peter Enns
Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”
— Genesis 5:2
Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.
— Genesis 6:20
they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
— Genesis 7:14
Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.
— Genesis 8:19
These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
— Genesis 10:20
Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
— Genesis 11:7
That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
— Genesis 11:9
And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.
— Exodus 12:38
The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
— Exodus 12:49
You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
— Leviticus 19:34
or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.
— Leviticus 21:20