Genesis 9:23 — Meaning and Application

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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.”

Genesis 9:23

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

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

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.

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

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

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Genesis 9:1

"And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth."

Genesis 9:2

"And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth {upon} the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered."

Genesis 9:3

"Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things."

Genesis 9:4

"But flesh with the life thereof, {which is} the blood thereof, shall ye not eat."

Genesis 9:5

"And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man."

Genesis 9:6

"Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man."

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