Genesis 9:25
and says: “Cursed [is] Canaan, || Servant of servants he is to his brothers.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
In Context
24And Noah awakens from his wine, and knows that which his young son has done to him,
26And he says: “Blessed of my God YHWH [is] Shem, || And Canaan is servant to him.
Cross References
Genesis 3:14And YHWH God says to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed [are] you above all the livestock, and above every beast of the field: on your belly you go, and dust you eat, [for] all days of your life;
Genesis 9:22And Ham, father of Canaan, sees the nakedness of his father, and declares to his two brothers outside.
Deuteronomy 27:16“Cursed [is] he who is making light of his father and his mother.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”
Joshua 9:23And now you are cursed, and none of you is cut off [from being] a servant, even hewers of wood and drawers of water, for the house of my God.”
Judges 1:28and it comes to pass, when Israel has been strong, that he sets the Canaanite to forced labor, and has not utterly dispossessed it.
2 Chronicles 8:7All the people who are left of the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, who are not of Israel—
Matthew Henry on Genesis 9:25-28
Noah's Prophecy. ( b. c. 2347.) 24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. 25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. Here, I. Noah comes to himself: He awoke from his wine. Sleep cured him, and, we may suppose, so cured him that he never relapsed… Read the whole commentary →