The territory of Canaan, son of Ham, appears in the table of nations as the region containing Sodom and the other cities of the plain. After the Flood, Noah planted a vineyard, became uncovered in his tent, and awoke to learn that Ham's younger son Canaan had committed an act of sexual deviance. Noah therefore pronounced a curse on Canaan. The land assigned to Canaan extended to the five cities of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Zoar, which lay in the fertile Valley of Siddim at the southern end of the Jordan River aquifer. When Chedorlaomer marched through the region, he attacked the Canaanites who inhabited those cities. In later prophetic speech, Sodom stands as the representative of the Canaanites, a people already marked by the same pattern of pride, abundance, idleness, neglect of the poor, and abomination that later overtook Jerusalem. The material therefore presents the land of Canaan as the first post-Flood location where the debased condition reemerged, setting the geographic and moral stage for the judgment that fell on Sodom and for the continuing warning that the same condition now characterizes the modern world.