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Genesis 9:23

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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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  1. Genesis 9:21

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

  2. Genesis 9:22

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

  3. Genesis 9:24

    And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

  4. Genesis 9:25

    And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.