Ham (son of Noah) son had done unto him. And he said, And he said, —Revised Version Ham was "blessed" in – Noah did not curse him directly, instead cursing his son Canaan. The Talmud deduces two possible explanations, one attributed to Rab and one to Rabbi Samuel, for what Ham did to Noah to warrant the curse. According to Rab, Ham castrated Noah on the basis that, since Noah cursed Ham by his fourth son Canaan, Ham must have injured Noah with respect to a fourth son. Emasculating him thus deprived Noah of the possibility of a fourth son. According to Samuel, Ham
Lamech (father of Noah) Lamech (father of Noah) Lamech (; "Lemeḵ") was a patriarch in the genealogies of Adam in the Book of Genesis. According to Christianity he is part of the genealogy of Jesus in Luke 3:36. Additionally, Lamech (Arabic: "Lamk") is also mentioned in Islam in the various collections of tales of the pre-Islamic prophets, which mentions him in an identical manner. Lamech is the eighth-generation descendant of Adam (Genesis 5:25), the son of Methuselah, and the father of Noah (), in the genealogy of Seth in Genesis 5. In Genesis 5:12-25, Lamech was a son of Methuselah, who was a grandson