Genesis 9:22

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

In Context

21And he drank of the wine, and was drunken. And he was uncovered within his tent.

23And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:6And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.

2 Samuel 1:19Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!

1 Chronicles 1:13And Canaan begot Sidon his first-born, and Heth,

Psalms 40:15Let them be desolate because of their shame who say to me, Aha, aha.

Proverbs 25:9Debate thy case with thy neighbor [himself], and disclose not the secret of another,

Obadiah 1:12But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor speak proudly in the day of distress.

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 →

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