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Genesis: An Introduction and Commentary (Steinmann) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Genesis is a book of origins: of the world, of sin, of God’s promise of redemption, and of the people of Israel. It traces God’s pledge of a Savior through Abraham’s line down to his great-grandson Judah. It serves as a foundation for the New Testament and its teaching that Jesus is the fulfillment of God’s promise to save humankind from sin and death. In this Tyndale Commentary, Andrew Steinmann...

Leviticus 20:17 to speak of illegitimate sexual relations between siblings. However, there the seeing is mutual. Nor can this be connected to the common Hebrew phrase for incest—to uncover someone’s nakedness (see Lev. 18:6–19)—since Noah uncovered his own nakedness. Another suggestion is that Ham took voyeuristic pleasure in seeing his father naked. However, there is no suggestion of this in the text itself. Instead, Ham’s sin was in not honouring his father by demonstrating discretion and loyalty.
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