12/04/2025
Praise the Lord everyone. I thought I would ask you to join with me as I study the following subject. There are some subjects that are salvific, others are important and others are interesting.
This subject comes up every once in a long while. It is about Noah getting drunk and him cursing Canaan instead of Ham who walked in and saw him drunk and naked. What I am about to write is not about salvation, it is an interesting question in which I come up with new suggestions every time I look into the subject. Since it is extensive, I am going to post it in section.
Laws Concerning Sexual Immorality
Before the fall of mankind in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve lived without clothing in a perfectly natural state (Genesis 2:25). But after the fall, nakedness became a source of shame (Genesis 3:6–7). In fact, shame at their own nakedness was the first felt consequence of Adam and Eve’s sin. Since then, nakedness has been linked with s*xuality, privacy, and vulnerability. When the Bible speaks of “uncovering nakedness,” it is usually referring to some type of s*xual sin, perversion, or dishonor.
The first reference to uncovering someone’s nakedness is in Genesis 9, which continues the story of Noah after the floodwaters receded. Noah and his sons and their spouses had established a new life as the only human beings left to repopulate the earth. As time went by, Noah planted a vineyard and made wine from the grapes. He then drank the wine, became drunk, and passed out naked in his tent (Genesis 9:20–21). His son Ham entered the tent, saw his father’s nakedness, and went to tell his brothers (Genesis 9:22). Scholars debate what may have transpired in this scene. The sin may have been more than merely mocking his father’s naked body. Ham (or his son Canaan) may have engaged in some kind of s*xual activity or dishonor of Noah’s private parts. Whatever he did by uncovering his father’s nakedness was wicked enough to invite Noah’s wrath when he sobered up. Noah then pronounced a strong curse on Canaan (Genesis 9:24).
The phrase uncover nakedness almost always refers to s*xual sin. In most newer versions of the Bible, the phrase uncover nakedness is usually reworded as “have s*xual relations with” (e.g., Leviticus 18:6, 17, 19). Other passages, such as Deuteronomy 22:30, forbade a man to sleep with his stepmother because doing so would “uncover his father’s nakedness” (ESV). By entering into intimacy with the same woman who had slept with his father, a man disgraced his father (Deuteronomy 27:20; Leviticus 18:8; Ezekiel 22:10). This was one reason the sin of Absalom, David’s son, was so great (2 Samuel 16:22). As the ultimate act of disrespect, Absalom let it be known publicly that he was having s*x with his father’s concubines. He not only violated his father’s bedroom, he violated God’s written law: “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he dishonors his father’s bed” (Deuteronomy 27:20).
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