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What Is the Difference Between the Meaning of Curse in Galatians and Genesis

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Christians try to respond to the “curse for us” allegation by saying that the meaning of the curse here is that he bore the curse for them and that the curse did not befall him, according to their claim.

Here we have a question about the word “cursed” that appears in Galatians and Genesis. Galatians 13:3

states

: “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us ! For it is written, ’ Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree . ’” Christians

interpret the curse in this text in another sense and interpret the word to mean that Christ bore curses for them.

But in Genesis 9:18 we find another curse:

“And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his brothers outside. Then Shem and Japheth took the mantle, and laid it on their shoulders, and walked backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they did not see the nakedness of their father. And when Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his younger son had done to him; and he said, Cursed be Canaan : he shall be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

The question here is: What is the difference between the meaning of the curse in Galatians and the curse in Genesis?

Or did the translator not know how to translate the meaning of the curse in the first text?!