Genesis 9:22 - Exposition

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness . Pudenda, from a root ( עָרָה ) signifying to make naked, from a kindred root to which ( עָרם ) comes the term expressive of the nakedness of Adam and Eve after eating the forbidden fruit ( Genesis 3:7 ). The sin of Ham—not a trifling and unintentional transgression" (Von Bohlen)—obviously lay not in seeing what perhaps he may have come upon unexpectedly, but