Genesis 9:26
Good News Translation
Give praise to the LORD, the God of Shem! Canaan will be the slave of Shem.

New Revised Standard Version
He also said, “Blessed by the LORD my God be Shem; and let Canaan be his slave.

Contemporary English Version
I ask the LORD my God to bless Shem and make Canaan his slave.

New American Bible
He also said: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! Let Canaan be his slave.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant.

Blessed.

Deuteronomy 33:26 There is no other god like the God of the rightest: he that is mounted upon the heaven is thy helper. By his magnificence the clouds run hither and thither.

Psalm 144:15 They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.

Romans 9:5 Whose are the fathers and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Amen.

the Lord.

Genesis 10:10-26 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar. . . .

Genesis 12:1-3 And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee. . . .

Luke 3:23-36 And Jesus himself was beginning about the age of thirty years: being (as it was supposed) the son of Joseph, who was of Heli, who was of Mathat, . . .

Sem.

Hebrews 11:16 But now they desire a better, that is to say, a heavenly country. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

his servant.

Genesis 27:37,40 Isaac answered: I have appointed him thy lord, and have made all his brethren his servants: I have established him with corn and wine, and after this, what shall I do more for thee, my son? . . .

Context
Shem's Blessing and Noah's Death
26And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant.27May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant.…
Cross References
Genesis 14:20
And blessed be the most high God, by whose protection, the enemies are in thy hands. And he gave him the tithes of all.

Genesis 24:27
Saying: Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not taken away his mercy and truth from my master, and hath brought me the straight way into the house of my master's brother.

Genesis 27:29
And let peoples serve thee, and tribes worship thee: be thou lord of thy brethren, and let thy mother's children bow down before thee. Cursed be he that curseth thee: and let him that blesseth thee be filled with blessings.

1 Kings 9:21
Their children, that were left in the land; to wit, such as the children of Israel had not been able to destroy, Solomon made tributary unto this day.

Genesis 9:25
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