¹⁸The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth.ⁿ (Ham was the father of Canaan.)^o ¹⁹These were the three sons of Noah,^p and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.^q

²⁰Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded^a to plant a vineyard. ²¹When he drank some of its wine,^r he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. ²²Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked^s and told his two brothers outside. ²³But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.

²⁴When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, ²⁵he said,

“Cursed^t be Canaan!^u

The lowest of slaves

will he be to his brothers.^v”

²⁶He also said,

“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Shem!^w

May Canaan be the slave^x of Shem.

²⁷May God extend Japheth’s^b territory;^y

may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,^z

and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”

²⁸After the flood Noah lived 350 years. ²⁹Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.^a

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Footnotes

aOr soil, was the first
bJapheth sounds like the Hebrew for extend.

Cross references

nSee Ge 5:32; Lk 3:36
over 25–27; Ge 10:6, 15
p Ge 5:32
qSee Ge 1:22; 10:32; 11:4, 8, 9
r Ge 19:35
s Hab 2:15
t Ge 27:12
uver 18; Ex 20:5; Ps 79:8; Isa 14:21; Jer 31:29; 32:18
v Ge 25:23; 27:29, 37, 40; 37:10; 49:8; Nu 24:18; Jos 9:23
w Ge 14:20; Ex 18:10; Ps 7:17
x 1 Ki 9:21
y Ge 10:2–5
z Eph 2:13–14; 3:6
aSee Ge 2:17