Verse 23
Genesis 9:23
King James Version
23
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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּקַּח֩ שֵׁ֨ם וָ/יֶ֜פֶת אֶת הַ/שִּׂמְלָ֗ה וַ/יָּשִׂ֨ימוּ֙ עַל שְׁכֶ֣ם שְׁנֵי/הֶ֔ם וַ/יֵּֽלְכוּ֙ אֲחֹ֣רַנִּ֔ית וַ/יְכַסּ֕וּ אֵ֖ת עֶרְוַ֣ת אֲבִי/הֶ֑ם וּ/פְנֵי/הֶם֙ אֲחֹ֣רַנִּ֔ית וְ/עֶרְוַ֥ת אֲבִי/הֶ֖ם לֹ֥א רָאֽוּ
English Translation
And Shem and Japheth took the cloak and put it on their shoulders; and they walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father, and their faces were backward, and the nakedness of their father they did not see.
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And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl...
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Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all th...
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But flesh with the life thereof,
which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
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And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, an...
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Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God (Elohim) made he...
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And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
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And God (Elohim) spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
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And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
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And with every living creature that
is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of t...
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And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters...
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12
And God (Elohim) said, This
is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every l...
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I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
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And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cl...
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And I will remember my covenant, which
is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh;...
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And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting cove...
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And God (Elohim) said unto Noah, This
is the token of the covenant, which I have established between...
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And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the fa...
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These
are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
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And Noah began
to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
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And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
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And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid
it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and c...
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And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
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And he said, Cursed
be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
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And he said, Blessed
be the LORD God (Elohim) of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
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God (Elohim) shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his...
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And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
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And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
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