Does the Bible indicate what it was that Noah knew that Ham had done to him when he awoke from his wine in Gen. 9:24?
The surrounding verses relevant to the question are as follows.
“And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren” (Genesis 9:20-25).
The Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament supposes that Ham’s sin was glorying in the shame of his father, compounded by proclaiming Noah’s shame to his two siblings. Adam Clarke in his commentary notes, “Ham, and very probably his son Canaan, had treated their father on this occasion with contempt or reprehensible levity.” The Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary, likewise, attributes to Ham levity over the shame of Noah. James Burton Coffman, in his commentary, relates that Ham’s son Canaan, who received the curse, had viewed Noah in his uncovered condition, whereas Ham had gossiped about it. (The word “son” may refer to one’s grandson. Ham was not the youngest son of Noah.) Some commentators suppose that some sort of sexual sin is implied or something else was done to Noah, which when Noah awakened, he could discern. Still other commentators suppose that Noah learned of whatever transpired by being informed as to what occurred.
