Genesis 9:22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.

English Standard Version
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.

New American Standard Bible
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

King James Bible
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.

International Standard Version
Ham, who fathered Canaan, saw his father's genitals and told his two brothers outside.

American Standard Version
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which when Cham the father of Chaanan had seen, to wit, that his father's nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.

Darby Bible Translation
And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren outside.

Young's Literal Translation
And Ham, father of Canaan, seeth the nakedness of his father, and declareth to his two brethren without.

Cross References

Genesis 9:23
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Habakkuk 2:15
Woe to him that gives his neighbor drink, that put your bottle to him, and make him drunken also, that you may look on their nakedness!

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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.