Genesis 9:26
And he said, Blessed be LORD, the God of Shem. And let Canaan be his servant.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
In Context
25And he said, Cursed be Canaan. He shall be a servant of servants to his brothers.
27God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem. And let Canaan be his servant.
Cross References
Genesis 12:1Now LORD said to Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will show thee.
Genesis 27:40And by thy sword thou shall live, and thou shall serve thy brother. And it shall come to pass, when thou shall break loose, that thou shall shake his yoke from off thy neck.
Joshua 9:23Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall never fail to be bondmen of you, both hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
Psalms 144:15blessed [are] the people who are in such a case. Blessed are the people whose God is LORD.
Romans 9:5of whom are the fathers, and from whom (according to flesh) is the Christ, God who is over all is blessed into the ages. Truly.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 9:25-28
Noah's Prophecy. ( b. c. 2347.) 24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. 25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. Here, I. Noah comes to himself: He awoke from his wine. Sleep cured him, and, we may suppose, so cured him that he never relapsed… Read the whole commentary →