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"From these the inhabitants of the islands spread into their lands,
according to their languages and their families and by their nations." - Genesis 10:5

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Genesis 10:6-12

It has bedn estimated that an annual growth rate of less than 0.5% per year would be adequate to obtain a human population of 6 billion people in the present day ( See Batten, Dan. 2001. "Where are all the People?").

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HAM : CUSHITES:


Ham was the father of four sons: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan

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QUESTION: Does the name HAM not indicate all his descendants were black?

The name HAM from the Hebrew Hebrew root Khawm, means “swarthy” or “brown” and it also carries the suggestion of “hot.”* It seems reasonable that if Ham received his name at birth, probably he was a child with skin that was somewhat darker than that of his brothers. In any case, whatever his complexion, Ham had four sons: Cush**, Mizraim, Put and Canaan. The descendants of both Mizraim (Egyptians,Philistines) and Caanan (the Semites, Hebrews) where not black skinned.

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*HAM: A Dictionary of the Bible, by James Hastings, relates the Hebrew word for Ham to an Egyptian word meaning “black” but explains that this Egyptian word is an allusion to the dark soil of Egypt as compared with the desert sand.

There is some doubt as to the words origin of the Hebrew and some argue that the biblical name Ham "bears no relationship at all to the notion of blackness and as of now is of unknown etymology" - Bryn Mawr Classical Review, September , 2016 of "The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam." David M. Goldenberg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_(son_of_Noah)#cite_note-4

**CUSH: The translators of the Septuagint rendered the Hebrew word for “land of Cush” (forefather of the dark skinned peoples) as "Ethiopia" (Gr., Aithiopia) meaning “Region of Burnt Faces". This was a term given by the Greeks to refer to the regions south of Egypt.

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“I will count Rahab and Babylon among those who know me;
Here are Philistia and Tyre, together with Cush” - Psalms 87:4a

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"Basically, however, “Cushite” refers to Africans residing in the region anciently calledEthiopia . [The area originally designated by the name Ethiopia now consists of semiarid plains in the N, savannas and plateau land in the central region, and tropical rain forest toward the S.] "

Ham’s son Put is shown on Bible maps as having settled in the east of Africa, his descendants being Negroid. (Nah. 3:9) As for Ham’s son Cush, he is very evidently a principal progenitor (perhaps along with Put) of the Negroid or dark-complexioned branch of the human family (Jer. 13:23), as indicated by the areas of settlement of certain of his descendants. (Gen. 10:7) QR w67 9/1

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