Genesis 9:22
Ham (Canaan’s father) went into the tent and saw his naked father. Ham didn’t respect his father, so he went outside and told his brothers what happened.
Plain English Version
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
21Noah drank some of that wine and got drunk. He took his clothes off and went to sleep in his tent.
Cross References
Genesis 10:6The people that were born into Ham’s family split up into different tribes too, and each tribe had their own language, and their own country. Ham’s sons were Cush, and Egypt, and Put, and Canaan.
Psalms 40:15Those people make fun of me, and they laugh at me. God, please make them shamed, so that they feel really sad.
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 →