Mother of Ham

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She may have been a descendent of Cain.

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I received this comment on my webpage, which I thought was interesting:

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Cain was NEVER forgiven.

He was just marked so as no one would kill him or his lineage because yes, his lineage is who the Antichrist would come from and God allowed that lineage to be preserved to fulfill the role of the Beast/Antichrist

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While this does quote extra biblical books as sources, it is
an interesting passage about Cain’s lineage:

“1.”The seed of Cain were black” (Moses 7:22);

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2. “There was a blackness came upon all the children of Canaan” (Moses 7:8).

This refers to the people of Canaan prophesied by Enoch who lived chronologically before the great deluge. They are distinct from the Canaanites who descended from Ham.

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3. The mother of Ham, son of Noah, appears to have been distinct from the mother of Shem and Japheth.

The Book of Moses records that Noah “begat Shem of her who was the mother of Japheth, and when he was five hundred years old he begat Ham” (Moses 8:12).

The author makes a special point to note that Shem and Japheth had the same mother. If Ham had the same mother, there would have been no need to make such a distinction.

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4. Hebrew tradition as recorded in the Genesis Rabba midrash and the eleventh century Jewish commentator Rashi maintains that Naamah, sister of Tubal-cain (Genesis 4:22), was taken by Noah as a second wife to preserve Cain’s posterity, and that she became the mother of Ham.

The Book of Jasher identifies Noah’s wife Naamah as the daughter of Enoch, which would not refer to Noah’s ancestor Enoch (she would have been his great aunt!) but to Enoch the son of Cain identified in the Moses 5:43.

Both of these accounts agree that her name was Naamah and that she was a descendent of Cain.”

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link:
(this is a mormon link, but still, interesting information)

http://www.cumorah.com/index.php?target=view_other_articles&story_id=5&cat_id=3

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* this does not necessarily mean that the Antichrist is black fyi

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Other information about Noah’s two wives:

Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wives_aboard_Noah’s_Ark

In the Book of Jubilees, known to have been in use from the late 2nd century BC, the names of the wives of Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth are as follows:

Wife of Noah – Emzara, daughter of Rake’el[clarify], son of Methuselah

Furthermore, the Panarion of Epiphanius (c. 375) names Noah’s wife as Barthenos, while the c. 5th-century Ge’ez work Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan calls Noah’s wife "Haikal, the daughter of Abaraz, of the daughters of the sons of Enos" — whom some authors have connected with Epiphanius’Barthenos (i.e., Bath-Enos, daughter of Enos).[4]

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Armenian tradition give the name of Noah’s wife as Nemzar, Noyemzar or Noyanzar.

*** the two above sources appear to refer to Naamah (daughter of Enos , or Enoch, descendent of Cain (Gen 4:17, not Enoch, son of Seth (Gen 5:6)

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Furthermore:

The Genesis Rabba midrash lists Naamah, the daughter of Lamech and sister of Tubal-Cain, as the wife of Noah,[7] as does the 11th-century Jewish commentator Rashi in his commentary on Genesis 4:22.

In the medieval midrash Book of Jasher (trans. Moses Samuel c. 1840, ed. J. H. Parry 1887) Chapter 5:15, the name of Noah’s wife is said to be Naamah, daughter of Enoch.[8]

The LDS Book of Abraham, first published in 1842, says that the name of Ham’s wife was Egyptus (Abraham 1:23); her daughter apparently had the same name (v. 25).

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Just one wife on ark

The Book of Genesis, in 6:18, states, "But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you" (ESV).

Additionally, 1 Peter 3:20 states that there were exactly eight people on the Ark.

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Conclusion

The bible does not specifically mention that Noah had two wives.

But, if we go by what is written from different sources, then it appears that he had two wives.

The first one gave birth to Seth and Japheth, and must have died.

The second one gave birth to Ham, making him the youngest, and she is the one who went on the boat with Noah.

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So, even though the generations of Cain may have been destroyed in general, along with other sinful peoples, Ham would have been the one survivor, who was a mix between his Cain-mother Naamah, and his Seth-Father Noah.

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From Ham came Canaan, after which the land of Canaan and the Canaanites were named.

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The lineage of Cain appears to be afflicted with the sin of murder or violence, as a generational curse.

First there was Cain himself, who slew his brother Able. (Gen 4:8)

Second, there was Lamech, descendent of Cain, who slew a man for wounding him (Gen 4:23) He claimed he was 70 x more cursed than Cain. (Gen 4:24)

Third, there was Ham, who uncovered Noah’s nakedness, and mocked him to his brothers. In some Hebrew interpretations, to uncover the nakedness of a man, is to sleep with his wife. So this could have been incest.

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Curse of Cain and Ham

Canaan got the curse of Ham upon him, as Noah seemed to perceive that this would be a generational issue with the lineage of Ham….sins of the flesh, although sins of the flesh are not confined to just Ham’s lineage.

Today, we see people in “Canaan” claiming to be the descendants of the land. Their behavior and religion focuses on sex and violence. Slaughtering the Jews and other infidels will get them sex with 72 virgins in heaven.

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Generational curses have to be dealt with , and not excused, based on politics and personal bias toward people groups.

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The blood of Jesus can break this curse, and other curses.

For those under this curse, I encourage them to call upon the name of the Lord, repent of their sins, and the sins of their forefathers, so they can be saved.

For those that have done this, they are redeemed from the curse.

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