The Bible Doesn't Say That: 40 Biblical Mistranslations, Misconceptions, and Other Misunderstandings

by Joel M. Hoffman

two of Noah’s children are Shem and Ham; Ham has a son named Canaan. Shem—“Sem” in Greek—is the progenitor of the people we now call the Semites, and Canaan is the ancestor of the Canaanites, whom the Jewish Semites will conquer.