Ham’s eyes turned red, since he looked at his father’s nakedness; his lips became crooked, since he spoke with his mouth; the hair of his head and beard became singed, since he turned his face around; and since he did not cover [his father’s] nakedness, he went naked and his foreskin was extended.33 As more accurately rendered, this text may not refer to blacks at all; the statement “men of this race are called Negroes,” is not in the Hebrew text but was an explanation inserted by Graves and Patai.