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Genesis 9:22

And Cham the father of Chanaan saw the nakedness of his father, and he went out and told his two brothers without.

Brenton Septuagint

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 drunk, and was naked in his house.

23And Sem and Japheth having taken a garment, put it on both their backs and went backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their face was backward, and they saw not the nakedness of their father.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:6And the sons of Cham, Chus, and Mesrain, Phud, and Chanaan.

2 Samuel 1:19+ 1:19 The LXX. take הצבי as from כיצב, the A. V. from צבי.Set up a pillar, O Israel, for + 1:19 Two words here are used, as is often the case in the LXX. to express one. viz. τεθηκότων and τραυματτιῶν to express חלל.the slain that died upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

Proverbs 25:9Whenever thy friend shall reproach thee, retreat backward, despise him not;

Obadiah 1:12And + 1:12 Or, look not thou, etc.thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of strangers; nor shouldest thou have rejoiced against the children of Juda in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have boasted in the day of their affliction.

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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