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Noah’s Shame and Canaan’s Curse

Genesis 9:22

In 11 translations

BSB
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
KJV
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
WEB
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
ASV
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
LSV
And Ham, father of Canaan, sees the nakedness of his father, and declares to his two brothers outside.
YLT
And Ham, father of Canaan, seeth the nakedness of his father, and declareth to his two brethren without.
DBY
And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren outside.
DRC
Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father’s nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.
GNV
And when Ham the father of Canaan sawe the nakednesse of his father, he tolde his two brethren without.
JPS
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
LXXE
And Cham the father of Chanaan saw the nakedness of his father, and he went out and told his two brothers without.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וַיַּ֗רְא חָ֚ם אֲבִ֣י כְנַ֔עַן אֵ֖ת עֶרְוַ֣ת אָבִ֑יו וַיַּגֵּ֥ד לִשְׁנֵֽי־אֶחָ֖יו בַּחֽוּץ׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ εἶδε Χὰμ ὁ πατὴρ Χαναὰν τὴν γύμνωσιν τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐξελθὼν ἀνήγγειλε τοῖς δυσὶν ἀδελφοῖς αὐτοῦ ἔξω.

Who and where

👤 Canaan👤 Ham◆ Noah gets drunk and Canaan is cursed

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Part of

  • Noah and the Flood When human violence fills the earth, God grieves and resolves to judge it, but Noah finds favour and is told to build an ark for his family …

Cross-references most cited first

  • Proverbs 30:17As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
  • Galatians 6:1Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.
  • 1 Corinthians 13:6Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
  • Matthew 18:15If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.
  • Psalms 40:15May those who say to me, “Aha, aha!” be appalled at their own shame.
  • Psalms 70:3May those who say, “Aha, aha!” retreat because of their shame.
  • Genesis 10:6The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
  • Genesis 10:15–19And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the…
  • Obadiah 1:12–13But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress. You should not enter the…
  • 1 Chronicles 1:8The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
  • 2 Samuel 1:19–20“Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen! Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the…
  • Psalms 35:20–21For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land. They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”
  • Genesis 9:25he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
  • 1 Chronicles 1:13–16And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.
  • Proverbs 25:9Argue your case with your neighbor without betraying another’s confidence,

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