Another example of the Bibles use of both meanings of a double entendre can be found in Genesis 9:2027, where Ham saw his fathers nakedness (a euphemism for sexual intercourse, cf. Leviticus 2017, and so meant in Genesis 9:2021, as the curse proves, cf. Deuteronomy 27:20), but his brothers literally cover their fathers nakedness with a garment that they carry while walking backwards. Immanuel Casanowitz collected some 500 examples of paranomasia (puns) in his Paranomasia in the Old Testament (Boston, 1894).
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