Noah’s Children
 | Ham’s Sin, Shem and His Descendants
I like what i have read so far. But just one question or ratrher comment: Is there a reason why Ham's sons name was not mentioned. I believe it would important to have mention his name; being that the scripture says when Noah awoke he said Cursed be Canaan- and isn't the same land where God told his people not to take wifes from? I just felt that this was a very important detail. Because is this not the Land of father Abraham faith was tested?
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Is Eber mentioned anyone else? like the Midrash or the Talmud and so forth? Is there a more In depth story than the one In the Bible anyo where else?
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There is indeed a fair amount of rabbinic mention of Eber. He is often seen as a partner of his ancestor Shem. Together they served as teachers and guides. They are bearers of the monotheistic tradition along with Noah and Abraham.
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Hi Rabbi Gd bless you, very informitive website.Gd bless the jewish people and those who call upon him out of sincerty and truth.
I am an Evengelical Christian that love the jewish people.
Just want to make a correction concerning the "cursed of Ham". The Bible said cursed be Canaan" the cursed was upon Canaan not on Ham and all his descendants )(Canaan descendants-Amelikites, gergashites,Philistines etc.. these descendants were the same people that Joshua and Kaleb suppose to drove out of the Promised Land entirely (formerly called Canaans Land-Land of milk and honey
God gave it to the children of Yisrael has inheritance.I believe that was the cursed.
These people built great cities etc but because of their wickedness God gave their land to another.
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Seriously, why do you think Ham's entire bloodline was cursed. Because he was RUDE. That seems a little extreme. Oh wait, in Hebrew it clearly says Ham sodomized his father while drunk and then proudly showed his brother what he did. Now that seems like a more appropriate reason to curse an entire people. Stop propagating a mistranslation!
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In Judaism G-D cused Ham since not only did he see his father naked and do something about it but, he wanted to make sure his father doesn't give birth anymore so his children can get a larger share of land and portion of the earth, his son Canaan was cursed since he was the one who also saw his grandfather Noah naked first and, didn't do any good about it but, rather did bad by telling his father Ham about which resulted in his father doing that evil deed and spreading these details to his brothers Shem and Japheth.
When it comes to the Canaanites and Canaan. The land was given by Noah to Shem's descendants therfore it was always thiers but, some of the Canaanite tribes who were wicked took that land and resulted in it being called Canaan but, we see clearly G-D intends that land to be for Shem's descedants which is why he gave it to Abraham and his descendants who happen to be Shem's descendants.
The Amalekites are not descendants of Canaan, they are descendants of Esau.
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