Genesis 9:22

And Ham, father of Canaan, seeth the nakedness of his father, and declareth to his two brethren without.

Young's Literal Translation

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 drinketh of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovereth himself in the midst of the tent.

23And Shem taketh — Japheth also — the garment, and they place on the shoulder of them both, and go backward, and cover the nakedness of their father; and their faces [are] backward, and their father's nakedness they have not seen.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:6And sons of Ham [are] Cush, and Mitzraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

2 Samuel 1:19'The Roebuck, O Israel, On thy high places [is] wounded; How have the mighty fallen!

1 Chronicles 1:13And Canaan begat Zidon his first born, and Heth,

Psalms 40:15They are desolate because of their shame, Who are saying to me, 'Aha, aha.'

Proverbs 25:9Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not,

Obadiah 1:12And — thou dost not look on the day of thy brother, On the day of his alienation, Nor dost thou rejoice over sons of Judah, In the day of their destruction, Nor make great thy mouth in a day of distress.

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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