Gen 9 :20-25
20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded [a] to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness.
24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25
he said,
"Cursed be Canaan!
The lowest of slaves
will he be to his brothers."
As i was reading the passage something struck me as odd, Ham was the son who uncovered his father's nakedness yet Canaan one of his sons was cursed. So i trawl the internet to find some theories people put forth.
I ask the question - why would Canaan suffer for the sin's his father committed ? Why are the other brothers spared ? Though no real reason can be fully given, i do believe that it might be something to do with the general disposition of Canaan.
Gen 10:15 Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, [h] and of the Hittites, 16 Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, 17 Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, 18 Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans scattered 19 and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
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