Underline the correct forms of the verbs in bold. “I am a carpenter’s son.
I am a carpenter’s son. My father is Noah. I helped him build his ark that landed in Asia. My younger brother, Shem, is father of the Semitic people of the orient, Asians. My brother, Japheth, was moved/move/moved/were moved north of Iraq’s tower of babel through the Caucasus Mountains and became father of the Caucasians. My sons and I headed south of Babel’s tower toward the Equator to Africa and India and we are called/called/call/are call Melan Asians, colored Asians, Negroes. Noah cursed my son Canaan who worshipped Baal and his people know/known/are known/are know as Canaan-Baals, Cannibals. Canaan’s descendants, called Canaanites in scripture, are invented/invented/are invent/were invented the alphabet. They moved to my son’s Phut’s land (Phut=Libya today), as Phutnicians – Phoenicians, and taught the Greeks phonics and were mariners of the sea. My firstborn’s name is Ethiopia, Cush in Hebrew, he settled lower Africa from sea to shining sea, and what you call the Atlantic is first call/were fist called/was first called/was first call the Ethiopic ocean. My second son’s name is Egypt, Mizraim in Hebrew. He inherited my African land upon my death where slavery was first introduce/first introduced/introduce/was first introduced. Egyptologists ignore my son, Egypt, to discredit the existence of my father’s ark. Western theology is belittled/belittles/was belittled/belittle me as cursed. The West equates my name with swine’s flesh. In Britain my name means village and God added/was added/is add/has been added my name to Abram’s….
I am Ham
Father of the black race.”