JAPHETH • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Japheth

... a wife from the daughters of Canaan, nor ally thyself by marriage with any of the children of Ham, for the Lord our God gave Ham the son of Noah and all his seed as slaves to the children of Shem and Japheth forever." ...

— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg

... was denounced against Ham, for the accidental seeing of his father Noah naked—that this curse was to do so, and did change him, so that instead of being long, straight-haired, high forehead, high nose, thin lips and white, as he then was, and like his brothers Shem and Japheth, he was from that day forth, to be kinky-headed, low forehead, thick lipped and black skinned; and that his name, and this curse, effected all this. And truly, to answer their assumptions, it must have done so, ...

— The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. • Buckner H. 'Ariel' Payne