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Week 6 Moses 7: 22-25 Deep Dive

In this deep dive, we tackle one of the most frequently misunderstood—and historically misused—lines in Restoration scripture: Moses 7:22–25, where Enoch describes the “seed of Cain” as “black.” This episode is a text-first and historically responsible reading. We track the passage’s internal logic (especially the paired phrases “had not place among them” and the immediate shift to Satan’s “veil… of darkness”) and we compare the way Moses 7 uses “black/blackness” elsewhere in the chapter (notably Moses 7:8). Most importantly, we follow the Church’s own interpretive guardrails: the meaning of “black” here is unclear, and nothing in the text justifies racialized interpretations (skin color as divine disfavor). The goal is clarity without speculation: what the text does say, what it doesn’t say, and how to teach this passage faithfully today. Key themes covered Moses 7’s symbolic universe: darkness, veiling, exclusion, Zion vs. anti-Zion Why “had not place among them” matters for interpretation Why “blackness came upon… so that they were despised” (Moses 7:8) reframes the discussion The Church’s explicit caution: don’t racialize or speculate about the “mark/curse of Cain” A semantic check on early 19th-century English usage (“black” as moral description) Primary Text Moses 7 (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints): https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/s... Church Study Help (Interpretive Guardrail) Scripture Helps (Old Testament) — Moses 7 (notes on v.22; cautions against speculation/racializing): https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/s... Latter-day Saint Scholarship (Context / Semantics / History of Interpretation) Scripture Central (Know Why) — “What were the curse and mark of Cain?” (1828 Webster note; historical development of racialized readings): https://scripturecentral.org/knowhy/w... Interpreter Foundation — “The People of Canaan: A New Reading of Moses 7” (reframing social exclusion in Moses 7): https://journal.interpreterfoundation... FAIR Latter-day Saints — “Dispelling the Myth of the Curse of Cain” (historical misconception overview): https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/b... Biblical Cross-Reference (darkness/blackness as moral-cosmic imagery) Jude 1:13 (“blackness of darkness”): https://biblehub.com/jude/1-13.htm