SinaiGenesis 9:23
American Standard Version
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon 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.
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Genesis 9:23 in other translations
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.
Genesis 9:23 in context
- 21and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
- 22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
- 23And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon 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.
- 24And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto him.
- 25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.