Genesis 9:23

Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.

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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

22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

24Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:12“Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Romans 13:7Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honour, then honour.

1 Timothy 5:1Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

1 Timothy 5:19Don’t receive an accusation against an elder except at the word of two or three witnesses.

1 Peter 4:8And above all things be earnest in your love amongst yourselves, for 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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