Noah's three sons
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Ἦσαν δὲ οἱ υἱοὶ Νῶε οἱ ἐξελθόντες ἐκ τῆς κιβωτοῦ Σήμ, Χάμ, Ἰάφεθ· Χὰμ ἦν πατὴρ Χανάαν.
The narrative turns from covenant to genealogy, naming Ham as "the father of Canaan" — a detail placed here in advance, so that the curse of Canaan in verse 25 lands on a name already fixed in the reader's mind. Σήμ (Shem) is the only one of the three brothers named in the New Testament, in Luke's genealogy of Jesus (Luke 3:36).
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