Verse 20
Genesis 9:20
Free Bible Version
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Shem and Japheth picked up a cloak and, holding it over their shoulders, walked in backwards and covered up their father's privates. They made sure to look the other way so they wouldn't see their father's privates.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יָּ֥חֶל נֹ֖חַ אִ֣ישׁ הָֽ/אֲדָמָ֑ה וַ/יִּטַּ֖ע כָּֽרֶם
English Translation
And Noah began a man of the ground and planted a vineyard.
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Chapter 9 Context
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God (Elohim) blessed Noah and his sons, and told them, “Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout t...
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All animals will be very afraid of you—this includes all the birds, all the creatures that run along...
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Every living creature that moves will be food for you, as well as all the green plants.
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If your blood is shed by any animal, I will call it to account; and if your blood is shed by any per...
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Whoever sheds the blood of a human being will have their blood shed by human beings. For God (Elohim...
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Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth—have many descendants!”
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Then God (Elohim) told Noah and his sons who were there with him,
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“Listen, I'm making my agreement with you and your descendants,
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and with all the animals around you—the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals of the earth—...
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In my agreement I'm promising you that I won't ever again destroy all life by means of a flood—there...
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Then God (Elohim) said, “I'm going to give you a sign to confirm the agreement I'm making between me...
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I've placed my rainbow in the clouds, and this will be the sign of my agreement with you and with al...
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Whenever I make clouds form over the earth and the rainbow appears,
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I will see the rainbow in the clouds and it will remind me of the eternal agreement between God (Elo...
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Then God (Elohim) told Noah, “This is the sign of the agreement I'm making between me and every crea...
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Noah's sons who left the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of the Canaanites.)
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Noah started to cultivate the ground as a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.
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He drank some of the wine he'd produced, got drunk, and fell asleep in his tent, naked.
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Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's private parts and went and told his two brothers who wer...
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Shem and Japheth picked up a cloak and, holding it over their shoulders, walked in backwards and cov...
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When Noah woke up from his drunken sleep, he discovered what his youngest son had done,
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and said, “May Canaan be cursed! He will be the lowest kind of slave and will serve his brothers!”
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Then Noah continued, “May the Lord be blessed, the God (Elohim) of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave...
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May God (Elohim) give Japtheth plenty of space to accommodate his many descendants, and may they liv...
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Noah lived for another 350 years after the flood.
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Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.
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