"Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside...when Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, he said, 'Cursed be Canaan!'" vv. 22,24-25
Read chapter 9.
Here we come to a passage that seems kind of weird on the surface. Seeing a father naked doesn't seem that big of a deal, especially a sone and a father and then for Noah to curse Ham's son and that whole lineage seems "over-reacting." But maybe there's something more going on here, something hidden in words, phrasing to what really happened. In Leviticus 18 we see this working used again in the NKJV talking about sexual relations (in the NIV it says 'sexual relations' flat out). So this passage here could point to Ham having sexual relations with his mom! So why wouldn't it say this flat out? Maybe our God's tasteful and typically doesn't like to even mention how horrible men can be as we see vague references in other pars of scripture- especially with sexual sin. What's great is that scripture helps understand scripture!
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