Kejadian 9:18

The Curse of Canaan

9:18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Now Ham was the father of Canaan.) ¹ 

Kejadian 17:4

17:4 “As for me, ²  this ³  is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

[9:18]  ¹ sn The concluding disjunctive clause is parenthetical. It anticipates the following story, which explains that the Canaanites, Ham’s descendants through Canaan, were cursed because they shared the same moral abandonment that their ancestor displayed. See A. van Selms, “The Canaanites in the Book of Genesis,” OTS 12 (1958): 182-213.

[17:4]  ² tn Heb “I.”

[17:4]  ³ tn Heb “is” (הִנֵּה, hinneh).