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Yeah, I could see that we were crossing wires, because you seemed to be saying what I thought and was saying. Once you understand the idiom, and realize that it's Cainan who is cursed, and realize (as you pointed out) that Noah had no more children, then it's obvious what happened.
The only asterisk I put on the theory (and I do happen to believe it is as we have accounted it), is the strange description of Japheth and Shem walking backwards to cover their father's nakedness. so they wouldn't see it.
Now that is really strange. It seems to apply to his actual nakedness, but there's nothing particularly shameful about seeing your sleeping father naked, or mother for that matter. Nor is there any commandment suggesting that it is.
But if it has to do with the Hebrew idiom, and pertain's to their mother's infidelity, then the walking backwards bit is nonsensical.
My sense is that we're dealing with idioms so old and so obscure that we're not going to make complete sense of it. Indeed, the idiom may have changed, with the outrage by Ham being the older story, using the "nakedness' to mean the sexual idiom, while a later redactor may have added the gloss about the other boys, to elevate them and denigrate Ham. And in the time of the later redactor, the older idiom may no longer have been use, so naked meant naked.
In any case, it's an interesting case where good exegesis makes something that's otherwise just sort of strange come to life and make sense.
The sheet (cloth) is a covering of protection so as not to see the temptation of the flesh:
"Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh." (Romans 13:14) (NIV).
(a) Remember (Go back) and receive what you heard and repent.
(b) Defile not your garments.
Rev 3:3 "Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee."
Rev 3:4 "Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments."
(Revelation 3:3-4).
Going back:
(Back to the Lord):
And put on His bandages (Like a Sheet or Garment):
“Come, let’s go back to the Lord. He hurt us, but he will heal us. He wounded us, but he will put bandages on us." (Hosea 6:1) (ERV).
"Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."
(John 5:39).
Jesus is our cloth or sheet of righteousness.
For if sin hits our family or our lives, we are to walk back to the Lord Jesus and repent to Him.
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