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Genesis 9:21

and drinks of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovers himself in the midst of the tent.

Literal Standard Version

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 remains a man of the ground, and plants a vineyard,

22And Ham, father of Canaan, sees the nakedness of his father, and declares to his two brothers outside.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:32come, we cause our father to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve a seed from our father.”

Proverbs 23:31Do not see wine when it shows itself red, || When it gives its color in the cup, || It goes up and down through the upright.

Habakkuk 2:15Woe [to] him who is giving drink to his neighbor, || Pouring out your bottle, and also making drunk, || In order to look on their nakedness.

Romans 13:13as in daytime, let us walk properly; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy;

Galatians 5:21envyings, murders, drunkenness, reveling, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

Revelation 3:18I counsel you to buy from Me gold fired by fire, that you may be rich, and white garments that you may be clothed, and the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed, and with eye-salve anoint your eyes, that you may see.

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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