Ham, son of Noah, was cursed for doing something he should not have done (seeing his father Noah drunk and naked).
Answer B: The Bible does not say that Ham was cursed. It says his son Canaan was cursed.
Ham's fourth son Canaan.
In the Biblical view, Noah had 3 sons:
Japheth, Shem and Ham which correspond to various historic nations and peoples of European (Japheth), Semitic(Shem), and African (ham) descent.
After Ham saw his dad Noah naked, he was cursed by him:
" Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant. God enlarge Japteh , and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant."
Was it really Ham who was cursed or Ham's son, Canaan?
Genesis 9:22-26New King James Version (NKJV)22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness.
24 So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him. 25 Then he said:
"Cursed be Canaan;
A servant of servants
He shall be to his brethren."
26 And he said:
"Blessed be the Lord,
The God of Shem,
And may Canaan be his servant.
Noah cursed Ham's family in the Bible. This curse has been used to justify racist behavior against dark skinned people, particularly Blacks.
The Curse of Ham was an interpretation of a biblical story that suggested Ham, one of Noah's sons, was cursed with black skin as punishment. This interpretation was used to justify the enslavement of people of African descent, suggesting they were inherently inferior and destined for servitude. It perpetuated the belief that slavery was morally acceptable for certain races based on religious doctrine.
The curse of Ham is a biblical fallacy perpetrated by people who wanted to justify the enslavement of black people. The premise was that Noah cursed Ham, his black son, and doomed him to a life of servitude to others (slavery). In actuality, there is no curse of Ham, who was Ethiopian, but a curse of Canaan, who was not.
In Genesis, Noah cursed Canaan only, and did not curse Ham nor any others of Ham's children. The story of Noah and his Ark is now recognised by scholars as unhistorical. Since the Canaanites were the traditional enemy of the Hebrew people, the legend developed around a curse on their putative ancestor.
When Ham saw Noah's nakedness in the Bible, it is interpreted as a disrespectful act towards his father. This incident led to a curse being placed on Ham's son, Canaan, as punishment for his disrespect.
Ham disgraced Noah and was cursed for it. The account is in Genesis 9:20-27.
The reason why ham was cursed was because of the fact that Noah was celebrating the fact that he and his family have been set free from the aspect of what it happened with the flood and with that his son Ham noticed his father being naked and made fun of the issue and was cursed because of that; whereas his two brothers were respectful to their father Noah and they went in with a covering backwards and put the covering over their naked father. Answer 2 Ham was not cursed by anyone. Noah cursed Canaan one of Ham's sons (Genesis 9).
Ham was the son of Noah that saw his father naked. After Noah woke, he laid a curse upon Ham, saying, cursed be Canaan.
The descendants of Canaan, who encompassed the tribes of the Promised Land at the time of the Exodus from Egypt, were under a curse stemming back to the days of Noah and his sons. The Curse of Ham was laid down because of Ham's disregard for his father, and would cause all the descendants of Canaan, the fourth generation in the line of Noah through Ham, to serve the descendants of Shem, among which came forth Abraham, Isaac, Jacob who becomes Israel, Joseph, and the Hebrew people.In a much broader sense, God had chosen the Hebrew people as His own, and Canaan Land was the land God had promised the Hebrews.
Mormans have the same thoughts of blacks in high positions as they would any other race of people. The"curse of Ham" went away in the '70s.
Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the second son.Ham is also infamous as the originator of the 'Curse of Ham': having seen his father drunk and naked,* he told his sons about the deed; whereas his brothers covered their faces, and their father's sin with raiment (clothing). As a result, the descendants of Ham (the Canaanites, or black Africans) were reputed to have been mistreated and enslaved by the early Jews.*Which possibly was a Biblical euphemism for the act of committing adultery.
In the biblical story, Ham dishonored his father Noah by seeing him naked while he was drunk and then informing his brothers instead of covering him up discreetly. This lack of respect for his father's dignity and privacy led Noah to curse Ham's son Canaan.
In Genesis 10: 6-10, it shows that Nimrod was the son of Cush who was the son of Ham. Ham was the son who received the curse of his father Noah, after he found Noad sleeping - probably after a bit too much wine - in the nude and did not cover him up - at a minimum - and told his two brothers, Shem & Japheth, who then did.