Canaan (son of Ham)

Canaan (son of Ham) was a person in the Book of Genesis who was a grandson of Noah. Canaan and his father Ham (son of Noah) sinned against Noah so Noah cursed Canaan’s descendants to be slaves to the descendants of Sem and Japheth. In the Bible, Canaan is the ancestor of the Canaanites.

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