Genesis 9:21
And he drank of the wine, and became drunken; and he uncovered himself within his tent.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
In Context
20And Noah, who was a husbandman, began his work, and he planted a vineyard.
Cross References
Genesis 19:32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Proverbs 23:31Do not look on the wine when it looketh red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it glideth down so readily.
Habakkuk 2:15Woe unto him that maketh his neighbors drink, [to thee] that pourest out thy poisonous [wine], and makest them also drunken, in order to look on their nakedness!
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 →