Genesis 9:24

And Noah awoke from his wine,—and came to know what his youngest son had done to him.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

In Context

23And Shem and Japheth took a mantle, and put it on the shoulder of them both and went backwards, and covered the shame of their father, but their faces were backwards, and the shame of their father, saw they not.

25And he said, Accursed be Canaan,—a servant of servants, shall he be to his brethren!

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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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