Genesis 9:18–29

Noah’s Descendants

¹⁸Now^h the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) ¹⁹These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.^{i 20}And Noah began to be a man of the ground, and he planted a vineyard. ²¹And he drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he exposed himself in the midst of his tent. ²²And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and he told his two brothers outside. ²³Then^j Shem and Japheth took a garment, and the two of them put it on their shoulders and, walking backward, they covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned backward, so that^k they did not see the nakedness of their father. ²⁴Then^l Noah awoke from his drunkenness,^m and he knew what his youngest son had done to him. ²⁵And he said,

“Cursed be Canaan,

a slave of slaves he shall be to his brothers.”

²⁶Thenⁿ he said,

“Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem,

and let Canaan be a slave to them.

²⁷May God make space for Japheth,

and let him dwell in the tents of Shem,

and let Canaan be a slave for him.”

²⁸And Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. ²⁹And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.