Original Sin Continues its Effects

Genesis 9:18-29

18 Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan. 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.  20 And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard. 21 Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness.  24 So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him. 25 Then he said:
    “Cursed be Canaan;
    A servant of servants
    He shall be to his brethren.” 26 And he said:
    “Blessed be the Lord,
    The God of Shem,
    And may Canaan be his servant.
    27 May God enlarge Japheth
    And may he dwell in the tents of Shem;
    And may Canaan be his servant.”
28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. 29 So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

The human race and all races and nations originated from the disembarkation of Shem, Ham, and Japheth from the ark following the great deluge.  These trace their existence back through Noah’s line to Seth, Son of Adam, Son of God (Genesis 5:3 - And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth).  The bloodline of Cain the murderer of Abel ended under the flood of God’s judgement.   Noah did take up the profession of Cain in farming the earth as was the curse of sin pronounced on Adam (Genesis 3:17-19) for listening to Eve instead of God’s word.  The account reveals further sin by Ham (father of Canaan to be trouble later conquered by Joshua in taking the land God gave Israel), who found his father drunk from the wine of the farmer’s labor and did not turn away from looking at his nakedness.  The nakedness was known from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the source of sin needing to be covered by God (Genesis 3:21).  He told his brothers, who did not gaze at the nakedness to continue sin, but covered Noah appropriately.  When Noah awoke, he knew the younger son’s sin and cursed him and his lineage to be servants to the others, but blessed the God of Hem and of Japheth to prosper together with their brother as servant.  Noah then died later at 950 years old, one of the last living to be nearly a thousand years old.  After the flood, men lived shorter and shorter lives.  If nothing else, this limited the amount of sin they could live for.