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To: missyme
Nope,I don't have the book (but it's Genisis,if that helps any) and verse memorized,but trust me,when I say something is so,IT IS!

I have a far better than average memory,was always an A student in Sunday school and Conformation class,and aced my Bible classes in boarding school.It's the King James version and it IS in the Noah story.And it's also in Medieval Passion plays.

Since you pride yourself on knowing the Bible,WHY don't you know about this? It is,or used to be common knowledge!

191 posted on 08/19/2004 10:38:40 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons
I'm going to have to call you regarding Ham turning Black. You may remember being taught this, but it is NOT scriptural.

Gen 9:20 And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
Gen 9:21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Gen 9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
Gen 9:23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid [it] upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces [were] backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
Gen 9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
Gen 9:25 And he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
Gen 9:26 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Gen 9:27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Gen 9:28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
Gen 9:29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

So actually, God punished Ham by putting a curse on Canaan, his son.

The Hamites were believed to be the Negroid race, so this curse was interpreted to be a curse on Black Africans, that they would be subservient to the other races, hence a justification for slavery.

Somehow, this turned into the idea that the "curse." was that of being Black skinned.

As you can see from scripture, that is not the case.

Link:http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Gen/Gen009.html#top

513 posted on 08/20/2004 5:45:19 PM PDT by happygrl
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