Genesis 9:23

And 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.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

22And Ham, father of Canaan, seeth the nakedness of his father, and declareth to his two brethren without.

24And Noah awaketh from his wine, and knoweth that which his young son hath done to him,

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Cross References

Exodus 20:12'Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

Romans 13:7render, therefore, to all [their] dues; to whom tribute, the tribute; to whom custom, the custom; to whom fear, the fear; to whom honour, the honour.

1 Timothy 5:1An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;

1 Timothy 5:19Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.

1 Peter 4:8and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover 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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