Genesis 9:25
he said, “Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants will he be to his brothers.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
In Context
24Then Noah, awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,
26And he said: “Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, let Canaan be his servant.
Cross References
Genesis 3:14And the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you are cursed among all living things, even the wild beasts of the earth. Upon your breast shall you travel, and the ground shall you eat, all the days of your life.
Genesis 9:22Because of this, when Ham, the father of Canaan, had indeed seen the privates of his father to be naked, he reported it to his two brothers outside.
Deuteronomy 27:16Cursed be he who does not honor his father and mother. And all the people shall say: Amen.
Joshua 9:23Therefore, you shall be under a curse, and your stock shall not cease to be cutters of wood and carriers of water, into the house of my God.”
Judges 1:28Then, after Israel had grown strong, he made them tributaries, but he was not willing to destroy them.
2 Chronicles 8:7All the people who had been left from the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, those who were not from the stock of Israel,
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 →