page_title: Ham (son of Noah)
section_title: Ham in the Bible
hierarchical_section_title: Ham (son of Noah) / Ham in the Bible
caption_attribution_description: This is a part of a scan of an historical document: Title: Schedelsche Weltchronik or Nuremberg Chronicle
context_page_description: Ham, according to the Table of Nations in the Book of Genesis, was the second son of Noah and the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan.
  Ham's descendants are interpreted by Flavius Josephus and others as having populated Africa and adjoining parts of Asia. The Bible refers to Egypt as "the land of Ham" in Psalm 78:51; 105:23,27; 106:22; 1 Chronicles 4:40.
context_section_description: Genesis 5:32 indicates that Noah became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth from the age of 500 years old, but does not list in detail their specific years.  (Noah was 600 years old at the time of the flood in Genesis 7.) An incident involving Ham is related in Genesis 9:20-27.
  And Noah began to be an husbandman, and planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
  And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto him. And he said, 
  Cursed be Canaan;
  A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
  And he said, 
  Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem;
  And let Canaan be his servant.
  God enlarge Japheth,
  And let him dwell in the tents of Shem;
  And let Canaan be his servant.
  —Revised Version
caption: This illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle uses the spelling "Cham".
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