Genesis 9:20–27

20Noah was a man who worked the ground. He decided to plant a vineyard. 21He drank some of its wine. It made him drunk. Then he lay down inside his tent without any clothes on. 22Ham saw his father’s naked body. Ham was the father of Canaan. Ham went outside and told his two brothers.

23But Shem and Japheth took a piece of clothing. They laid it across their shoulders. Then they walked backward into the tent. They covered their father’s body. They turned their faces away. They didn’t want to see their father’s naked body.

24Then Noah woke up from his sleep that was caused by the wine. He found out what his youngest son had done to him. 25He said,

“May a curse be put on Canaan.

He will be the lowest of slaves to his brothers.”

26Noah also said,

“May the Lord, the God of Shem, be blessed.

May Canaan be the slave of Shem.

27 May God add land to Japheth’s territory.

May Japheth live in the tents of Shem.

And may Canaan be their slave.”