Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?
New Living Translation (©2007)

Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard take away its spots?
New American Standard Bible (©1995)

“Can the Ethiopian change his skin Or the leopard his spots?
New International Version (©1984)

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard take away its spots? Neither can you start doing good, for you have always done evil.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin Or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do good Who are accustomed to doing evil.

GOD’S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Can Ethiopians change the color of their skin or leopards change their spots? Can you do good when you’re taught to do wrong?

King James Bible
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

Now why would anyone five hundred years or more BC talk about an Ethiopian wanting to change his color?

In every movie I see the Children of Israel are integrated by quota. Lately, they are largely mulattoes. My problem is that as a Bible Belter I didn’t just see the
movie, I read the book.

There is at least one specifically anti-black race riot in the Old Testament.

Any movie of the BC days shows the people heavily Negroid.

I can’t find any classical statues that look the least like mulattoes.

On the documentaries now Hannibal is black. Pharaohs and everybody around them is black.

One real curse about knowing as much history as I do is that I get teed off watching documentaries. But that is also why I tend to be such a doc-watcher.
It is hard to find a subject I’m not interested in. Documentaries not only drop in some new information, they tell where Mommy Professor is right now.
It is also interesting to watch the balance between what is new and what they CAN say.

Back when there were four networks, I watched TV regularly. It was very lower-clahss, but I would ask people, “How can you NOT watch television and
know where mass thought is?” I didn’t get paid to look artistic, I got paid to keep up with politics.

Anyone who had called Hannibal a black to his face would have had less than a second to live. Anyone who had portrayed the 300 Spartans as dark as the movie
did would have lived as long as he could stay out of their reach. Part of the REAL Olympic Oath was “I swear that I am of pure Hellenic blood.” They made it more than abundantly clear what they thought of as pure Hellenic blood as an ideal in their notably non-Negroid statues.

I would love to see the Spartans’ reaction to their being portrayed, every one of them, as brown eyed and black as if there were not a drop of Aryan blood in any of them.