> 2 Kings 5:27 explaining the existence of a group ancestrally white as snow as a curse That’s a pretty strained reading of that text. The curse wasn’t being

> 2 Kings 5:27 explaining the existence of a group ancestrally white as snow as a curse That’s a pretty strained reading of that text. The curse wasn’t being white, as in Caucasian, but as in covered in leprous sores. 2 Kings 5:27 reads, > “Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever." So he went out from his presence a leper, like snow. Compare that description to Leviticus 13:9-11: > When a man is afflicted with a leprous disease, he shall be brought to the priest, and the priest shall look. And if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling, it is a chronic leprous disease in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean.