Genesis 9:25
He said: Cursed be Chaanan, a servant of servants, shall he be unto his brethren.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
In Context
24And Noe 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 Sem, be Chanaan his servant.
Cross References
Genesis 3:14And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and the beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
Genesis 9:22Which when Cham the father of Chaanan had seen, to wit, that his father's nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.
Deuteronomy 27:16Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.
Joshua 9:23Therefore you shall be under a curse, and your race shall always be hewers of wood, and carriers of water unto the house of my God.
Judges 1:28But after Israel was grown strong he made them tributaries, and would not destroy them.
2 Chronicles 8:7All the people that were left of the Hethites, and the Amorrhites, and the Pherezites, and the Hevites, and the Jebusites, that were not of 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 →