Genesis 9:23

And Shem takes—Japheth also—the garment, and they place on the shoulder of them both, and go backward, and cover the nakedness of their father; and their faces [are] backward, and their father’s nakedness they have not seen.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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

24And Noah awakens from his wine, and knows that which his young son has done to him,

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Cross References

Exodus 20:12Honor your father and your mother, so that your days are prolonged on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you.

Romans 13:7render, therefore, to all [their] dues; to whom tribute, the tribute; to whom custom, the custom; to whom fear, the fear; to whom honor, the honor.

1 Timothy 5:1You may not rebuke an elder, but exhort [him] as a father, younger persons as brothers,

1 Timothy 5:19Do not receive an accusation against an elder, except on two or three witnesses.

1 Peter 4:8Before all things, having earnest love among yourselves, because love covers a multitude of sins;

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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