Curse of Ham the ark and "was smitten in his skin"; according to another, Noah cursed him because he castrated his father. Although the Talmud refers only to Ham, the version brought in a midrash goes on further to say "Ham, that Cush came from him" in reference to the blackness, that the curse did not apply to all of Ham but only to his eldest son Cush, Cush being a sub-Saharan African. Thus, two distinct traditions existed, one explaining dark skin as the result of a curse on Ham, the other explaining slavery by the separate curse on Canaan. The concepts were
Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible is a concordance to the Bible compiled by Robert Young first published in 1879. British editions and American editions are numbered differently. These have the title "Analytical Concordance to the Holy Bible". These have the title "Analytical Concordance to the Bible". The 20th American edition, first published in 1910, corresponds largely to the British 7th edition revised by W. B. Stevenson, but to which was added a further supplement, entitled "A sketch of recent exploration in Bible lands" by Thomas Nicol. This was originally published separately some time