Genesis 9:21

And he drank of the yayin, and became shikker (intoxicated); and he lay uncovered inside his ohel.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

In Context

20And Noach began to be an ish ha'adamah (a man of the soil), and he planted a kerem (vineyard);

22And Cham, the av of Kena'an, saw the erom (nakedness) of his av, and told his two achim on the outside.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:32Come, let us make avinu drink yayin, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve zera by avinu.

Proverbs 23:31Stare not thou into the yayin when it is red, 1 when it sparkles in the kos (cup), 1 when it goeth down smoothly. 1

Habakkuk 2:15Hoy (Woe) unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, 1 pressing thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, 1 that thou mayest look on their nakedness! 1

Romans 13:13Let us conduct ourselves decently as in HaYom (The Day), not in carousing and shichrut (drunkenness), not in zenut (fornication) and debauchery and zimmah (licentiousness), not in merivah (strife) and quarreling and anochiyut (selfishness) and kinah (jealousy).

Galatians 5:21Tzarut ayin (envyings), shichrut (drunkenness), holelut (carousing) and things like these, of which I tell you beforehand, as I said previously, that the ones practicing such things will not receive the nachalah (inheritance) of the Malchut Hashem.

Revelation 3:18I counsel you to buy from me zahav (gold) having been purified by eish (fire) — that you may be oisher (rich) — and a kittel, that you may be clothed in lavan (white), and that the bushah (shame) of your nakedness not be made nikar (evident), and eye salve to rub on the eynayim (eyes) of you 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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