Genesis 9:22

Ham, the father of Words probably inserted by the compiler (R). If so, in the original narrative there stood in this verse simply the name of "Canaan," "and Canaan saw the nakedness." Otherwise the curse pronounced upon Canaan, instead of upon Ham, in Genesis 9:25, is unintelligible (see note).

According to this view, the old tradition, from which these verses are derived, regarded "Canaan," and not "Ham," as the brother of Shem and Japheth.