The only race in the Bible is the human race. But there are three families who work best if helping each other.
Speaking in the city of Athens in the first century, the apostle Paul makes the statement that God “has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us” (Acts 17:26-27). It’s true, he says; there are many nations, but just one race, and the proof is this: our blood is common among all peoples. However, Genesis 10 gives a list of the groups from which all peoples in the world today can be traced, all from three sub-divisions: “the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth” (Gen 10:1). Shem, not the oldest, is named first because it was through his line that the Savior would come. Arthur Custance proposes “that a kind of division of responsibilities to care for the specific needs of mankind at three fundamental levels—the spiritual, the physical, and the intellectual—was divinely appointed to each branch with appropriate capabilities. Thus the contribution of Shem, in terms of both true and false religious conceptions, has been in the realm of the spirit. The contribution of Ham, in whom are all the colored races and who are the originators of the ancient civilizations of both the Old and the New World, has to do with technology which has been unsurpassed. Japheth’s contribution has been in the realm of thought. Thus human potential reaches its climax when all three brothers (in their descendants) jointly make their contribution.” It’s also wonderfully true that God is accessible to all the nations, calling on them to seek and find Him because, says Paul, “He is not far from each one of us.”