Genesis 9:21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.

English Standard Version
He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.

New American Standard Bible
He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.

King James Bible
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He drank some of the wine, became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.

International Standard Version
He drank some of the wine, got drunk, and lay down naked right in the middle of his tent.

American Standard Version
and he drank of the wine, and was drunken. And he was uncovered within his tent.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent.

Darby Bible Translation
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken, and he uncovered himself in his tent.

Young's Literal Translation
and drinketh of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovereth himself in the midst of the tent.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

9:18-23 The drunkenness of Noah is recorded in the Bible, with that fairness which is found only in the Scripture, as a case and proof of human weakness and imperfection, even though he may have been surprised into the sin; and to show that the best of men cannot stand upright, unless they depend upon Divine grace, and are upheld thereby. Ham appears to have been a bad man, and probably rejoiced to find his father in an unbecoming situation. It was said of Noah, that he was perfect in his generations, ch.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

21. And he drank of the wine, and was drunken—perhaps at the festivities of the vintage season. This solitary stain on the character of so eminently pious a man must, it is believed, have been the result of age or inadvertency.