27 Bible Verses About Cultural Sensitivity

And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?

Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,

And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.

And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.

And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;

And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.

And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.

And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,

And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.

And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.

And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben–ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.

The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;

But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

That ye shall say, Thy servants’ trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:

So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.