Genesis 9:22

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

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 was drunk, and was naked in his house.

23And Shem and Japheth having taken a garment, put it on both their backs and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their face was backward, and they saw not the nakedness of their father.

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Cross References

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

2 Samuel 1:19Set up a pillar, O Israel, for the slain that died upon thy high places: 1 How are the mighty fallen! 1

Proverbs 25:9Whenever thy friend shall reproach thee, 1 Retreat backward, despise him not; 1

Obadiah 1:12And thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of strangers; nor shouldest thou have rejoiced against the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have boasted in the day of their affliction.

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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