Genesis 9:22

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told it his two brothers without.

Leeser Tanakh

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 became drunken; and he uncovered himself within his tent.

23And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon the shoulders of both of them, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:6And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizrayim, Put and Canaan.

2 Samuel 1:19O beauty of Israel! upon the high places slain: how are the mighty fallen!

1 Chronicles 1:13And Canaan begat Zidon, his first-born, and Heth.

Psalms 40:15(40:16) May they be astonished in consequence of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha!

Proverbs 25:9Carry on thy cause with thy neighbor; but lay not open the secret of another:

Obadiah 1:12But thou shouldst not have looked on [pleased] at the day of thy brother, on the day that he was delivered up to strangers; neither shouldst thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction; nor should thou have spoken proudly on the day of distress.

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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