Richard D. Draper, S. Kent Brown, and Michael D. Rhodes identify "seed of Cain" with "skin pigmentation."
- Type
- Book
- Source
- Richard D. Draper LDS
- Hearsay
- Secondary
- Reference
Richard D. Draper, S. Kent Brown, and Michael D. Rhodes, The Pearl of Great Price: A Verse-by-Verse Commentary (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005), 126
- Scribe/Publisher
- Deseret Book
- People
- Richard D. Draper, S. Kent Brown, Michael D. Rhodes
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
the seed of Cain were black: This is a second reference to skin pigmentation as a point of social differentiation. The earlier reference concerns the people of Canaan whose skin color brought spite upon them (see Moses 7:8). There is reason to believe that, because the narrative features the people of Canaan and the people of Cain in different versions, these peoples are different.
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