Genesis 9:23

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Shem and Japheth took the garment and placed it on their shoulders. Then they walked in backwards and covered up their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so they did not see their father’s nakedness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 20:12 : 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you.
  • Lev 19:32 : 32 You must stand up in the presence of the aged, honor the presence of an elder, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
  • Rom 13:7 : 7 Pay everyone what is owed: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
  • Gal 6:1 : 1 Support One Another Brothers and sisters, if a person is discovered in some sin, you who are spiritual restore such a person in a spirit of gentleness. Pay close attention to yourselves, so that you are not tempted too.
  • 1 Tim 5:1 : 1 Instructions about Specific Groups Do not address an older man harshly but appeal to him as a father. Speak to younger men as brothers,
  • 1 Tim 5:17 : 17 Elders who provide effective leadership must be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard in speaking and teaching.
  • 1 Tim 5:19 : 19 Do not accept an accusation against an elder unless it can be confirmed by two or three witnesses.
  • 1 Pet 2:17 : 17 Honor all people, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the king.
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.

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  • Gen 9:18-22
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    18The Curse of Canaan The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth.(Now Ham was the father of Canaan.)

    19These were the three sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

    20Noah, a man of the soil, began to plant a vineyard.

    21When he drank some of the wine, he got drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

    22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers who were outside.

  • Gen 9:24-27
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    24When Noah awoke from his drunken stupor he learned what his youngest son had done to him.

    25So he said,“Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers.”

    26He also said,“Worthy of praise is the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem!

    27May God enlarge Japheth’s territory and numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth!”

  • 10Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

  • 4Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

  • Gen 19:31-35
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    31Later the older daughter said to the younger,“Our father is old, and there is no man in the country to sleep with us, the way everyone does.

    32Come, let’s make our father drunk with wine so we can go to bed with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

    33So that night they made their father drunk with wine, and the older daughter came in and went to bed with her father. But he was not aware of when she lay down with him or when she got up.

    34So in the morning the older daughter said to the younger,“Since I went to bed with my father last night, let’s make him drunk again tonight. Then you go in and go to bed with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”

    35So they made their father drunk that night as well, and the younger one came and went to bed with him. But he was not aware of when she lay down with him or when she got up.

  • 1The Table of Nations This is the account of Noah’s sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

  • Gen 3:7-8
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    7Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

    8The Judgment Oracles of God at the Fall Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the orchard.

  • 25The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.

  • Lev 18:7-11
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    7You must not expose your father’s nakedness by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.

    8You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; she is your father’s nakedness.

    9You must not have sexual relations with your sister, whether she is your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she is born in the same household or born outside it; you must not have sexual relations with either of them.

    10You must not expose the nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter by having sexual relations with them, because they are your own nakedness.

    11You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife born of your father; she is your sister. You must not have sexual relations with her.

  • 13On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives.

  • 21And sons were also born to Shem(the older brother of Japheth), the father of all the sons of Eber.

  • 32After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

  • 10The man replied,“I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”

  • 21The LORD God made garments from skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

  • 19You must not expose the nakedness of your mother’s sister and your father’s sister, for such a person has laid bare his own close relative. They must bear their punishment for iniquity.

  • 30(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

  • 15Then Rebekah took her older son Esau’s best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.