I need help understanding Gensis 9, what does Ham do that is so bad to made servent of servents?

Question

Why would he take his father's clothes off after Noah becomes drunken with wine? I mean there are a lot worse sins in the bible, was God being hard on Ham?

9:18 It says Ham is the father of Canaan, isnt it the other way around?

Answer 1

Ham disrespected his father, and he is the father of Canaan - who was Noah's grandson.
When Ham saw his father, he should have covered him up and left it at that - instead he ran and told his brothers.

Answer 2

Ham did not take his father's clothes. But, he saw his father naked, and instead covering him up, he went and told his brothers. They backed in (so as not to see) and covered Noah up.

Ham showed great disrespect to his father.

The father of Canaan----a darker race. This is where some Christians get the idea (as wrong as it is) that the darker skinned people are to be the servants of the white people.

Answer 3

Ham was the youngest of Noah's sons. Canaan was his son and grandson of Noah. Nephew of Shem and Japheth. Maybe I can help by asking u this question.

What should Ham have done when he saw his father's nakedness?

Instead he ran to his brother's to advised them of what he had seen instead of he covering his father's naked body himself he chose to involve his older brothers. They knew enough not to look upon the nakedness of their father for it was a sin to see their nakedness of another man.

The older boys were blessed for their obedience, Ham's seed from then on was cursed by Ham's failure to do the right thing of covering his father. Therefore his seed, Canaan and his seed after him would be the servants of Shem and Japheth's servants.

Answer 4

OK so your haven a problem exprapolating the obvious from what is written. This is a way of saying he got him drunk and had sex with him, seems likely he had passed out from the alcohal.

when he awoke and knew whwat his younger son had done to him. how ya spose he knew and how would seeing become done to him.

Now it can be speculated that Ham heard a rukus caused bu Canan his son and Noah and came into the tent. Canaan had benn naughty and when Noah awakened he remembered or was sore in his backside

Canaan was the son of Ham as it says.

Answer 5

There is a little bit of controversey there, but will try and keep it simple. In actuality it was not Ham who committed the act, it was Canaan. The act was homosexuality, and actually worse, Canaan wanted to have sexual desires with his father, and actually was not natural desires either. The desires possible even bordered on sexual deviate desires as well. That is why the Canaanites fell to such heavy immorality that comment on it is not necessary, to the vileness of it. Imaginations of their hearts were bent and this continuously.

Answer 6

nope ham is the father canaan i dont think the torah (bible) can be wrong. also g-d didnt punish ham noah did. so Noah was the one that cursed him not g-d. and what a rightous person says goes.

Answer 7

Some people make things happen, some people watch things happen, and some people can only talk about what happened. Ham was in the latter two categories, which makes him by definition just a follower, possibly a troublemaker, somebody who definitely needs a boss. Noah was just describing the situation for the son of a man like that. ("Poor boy. Always gonna need supervision.")

Answer 8

Canaan not Ham was made the servant.

Answer 9

Homosexuality

Answer 10

The bible does not say exactly what he did. A lot of people speculate but we do not know for sure.