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Genesis 9:22

And when Ham the father of Canaan sawe the nakednesse of his father, he tolde his two brethren without.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 drunke of ye wine and was drunken, and was vncouered in the middes of his tent.

23Then tooke Shem and Iapheth a garment, and put it vpon both their shoulders, and went backwarde, and couered the nakednesse of their father with their faces backwarde: so they sawe not their fathers nakednesse.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:6Moreouer, ye sonnes of Ham were Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.

2 Samuel 1:19O noble Israel, hee is slane vpon thy hie places: how are the mightie ouerthrowen!

1 Chronicles 1:13Also Canaan begate Zidon his first borne, and Heth,

Psalms 40:15Let them be destroyed for a rewarde of their shame, which say vnto me, Aha, aha.

Proverbs 25:9Debate thy matter with thy neighbour, and discouer not the secret to another,

Obadiah 1:12But thou shouldest not haue beholden the day of thy brother, in the day that hee was made a stranger, neither shouldest thou haue reioyced ouer the children of Iudah, in the day of their destruction: thou shouldest not haue spoken proudly in the day of 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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