If you will not allow this emendation to be right and certain, yet I think you must allow
it to be probable and ingenious, to render the sense clearer and plainer, and to give every
part its just weight and proportion. Or the whole may, with only a transposition and
without any omission, be represented thus :—


And Noah said,

Cursed be Ham the father of Canaan.
A servant of servants shall he be to his brethren.
And he said,

Blessed be the Lord God of Shem ;

For he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; ~

And Ham the father of Canaan shall be their servant.
God shall enlarge Japheth,

And Ham the father of Canaan shall be their servant.
12 DISSERTATION I.
