Genesis 9:21
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken. And he was uncovered within his tent.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
In Context
20And Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
Cross References
Genesis 19:32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lay with him, that we may preserve seed by our father.
Proverbs 23:31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
Habakkuk 2:15Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, who adds thy venom, and also makes him drunken, that thou may look on their nakedness!
Romans 13:13Let us walk decently as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in beddings and wantonness, not in strife and envy.
Galatians 5:21envyings, murders, intoxications, revelings, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, as I also did forewarn, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Revelation 3:18I counsel thee to buy from me gold refined from fire, so that thou may become wealthy, and white garments, so that thou may clothe thyself, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be made known, and eye-salve, so that thou may anoin
Matthew Henry on Genesis 9:19-24
Sin of Ham. ( b. c. 2347.) 18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. 20 And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. 23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment,… Read the whole commentary →