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Genesis 9:25 KJV
Genesis · chapter 9 · verse 25
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.Genesis 9:25 · King James Version
Genesis 9:25 in context
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 younger son had done unto him.
25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
27God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
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Key words (Strong's)
- servantʻebeda servantH5650 →
- Cursedʼârarto execrateH779 →
- CanaanKᵉnaʻanKenaan, a son a HamH3667 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
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Here, I. Noah comes to himself: He awoke from his wine. Sleep cured him, and, we may suppose, so cured him that he never relapsed into that sin afterwards. Those that sleep as Noah did should awake as he did, and not as that drunkard (Pro 23:35) who says when he awakes, I will seek it yet again. II.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 24-27