Cush (Bible) nation of Sudan. According to "Genesis", Cush's other sons were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtechah. The Book of Numbers 12:1 describes Moses as having married "a Cushite woman". The rhetorical question "Can the Cushite change his skin?" in Jeremiah 13:23 implies brown skin color; also, the Septuagint uniformly translates Cush as Αἰθιοπία ""Aithiopia"." Another person named "Cush" in the Hebrew Bible is a Benjamite who is mentioned only in Psalm 7, and is believed to be a follower of Saul. Josephus gives an account of the nation of Cush, son of Ham and grandson of Noah: "For of the
The Message (Bible) The Message (Bible) The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language was created and translated by Eugene H. Peterson and published in segments from 1993 to 2002. It is an idiomatic translation of the original languages of the Bible. "The Message" was translated by Peterson from the original languages. It is a highly idiomatic translation, using contemporary slang from the US rather than a more neutral International English, and it falls on the extreme dynamic end of the dynamic and formal equivalence spectrum. According to the Introduction to the New Testament of "The Message", its "contemporary idiom keeps the language of