Skin of Blackness as Garments in the Book of Mormon (2 Nephi 5:21)

The Lamanite Skin of Blackness in the Book of Mormon (2 Nephi 5:21) is not skin but potentially dark-colored garments or animal skins! Based on both biblical and archaeological scholarship, garments like these would have been highly symbolic in nature.

This theory requires us to look closely at what the Book of Mormon actually says about skins without our modern assumptions and biases getting in the way.

To learn more about this and other theories on the skin of blackness, watch the next video or read KnoWhy #718.


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