Genesis 9:23

And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed.

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In The King James Version

And 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 saw not their father’s nakedness.

In Context

22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.

24And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he said,

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Cross References

Exodus 20:12Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Romans 13:7Give to all what is their right: taxes to him whose they are, payment to him whose right it is, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour is to be given.

1 Timothy 5:1Do not say sharp words to one who has authority in the church, but let your talk be as to a father, and to the younger men as to brothers:

1 Timothy 5:19Do not take as true any statement made against one in authority, but only if two or three give witness to it.

1 Peter 4:8And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:

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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