And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness. Pudenda, from a root ( עָרָה) signifying to make naked, from a kindred root to which ( עָרם) comes the term expressive of the nakedness of Adam and Eve after eating the forbidden fruit (Genesis 3:7).
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Genesis 9:22
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