Genesis 9:21
and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
In Context
20And Noah began to be an husbandman, and planted a vineyard:
22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
Cross References
Genesis 19:32come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Proverbs 23:31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it goeth down smoothly.
Habakkuk 2:15Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that addest thy venom thereto, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
Romans 13:13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.
Galatians 5:21envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they which practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Revelation 3:18I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white garments, that thou mayest clothe thyself, and that the shame of thy nakedness be not made manifest; and eyesalve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest 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 →