Genesis 9:23
Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn't see their father's nakedness.
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Referenced Verses
- Exod 20:12 : 12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Lev 19:32 : 32 "'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
- Rom 13:7 : 7 Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.
- Gal 6:1 : 1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.
- 1 Tim 5:1 : 1 Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
- 1 Tim 5:17 : 17 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
- 1 Tim 5:19 : 19 Don't receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.
- 1 Pet 2:17 : 17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
- 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
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- Gen 9:18-225 verses89%
18 The sons of Noah who went forth from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.
20 Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
21 He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
- Gen 9:24-274 verses83%
24 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
25 He said, "Canaan is cursed. He will be servant of servants to his brothers."
26 He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.
27 May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant."
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10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Gen 19:31-355 verses74%
31 The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.
32 Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."
33 They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
34 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."
35 They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she got up.
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1 Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
- Gen 3:7-82 verses73%
7 The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
8 They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
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25 They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
- Lev 18:7-115 verses71%
7 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
8 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness.
9 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad.
10 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter, or of your daughter's daughter, even their nakedness: for theirs is your own nakedness.
11 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister.
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13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship;
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21 To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.
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32 Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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10 The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
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21 Yahweh God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
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19 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has made naked his close relative: they shall bear their iniquity.
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30 A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
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15 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.