⁴⁰ where they found rich, good pasture, and the land was very broad, ^(A)quiet, and peaceful, for the former inhabitants there belonged to Ham.

⁷ Then the five men departed and came to ^(A)Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, ^(B)quiet and unsuspecting, lacking^[a] nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how ^(C)they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. ⁸ And when they came to their brothers at ^(D)Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers said to them, “What do you report?” ⁹ They said, ^(E)“Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. ^(F)And will you do nothing? ^(G)Do not be slow to go, to enter in and possess the land. ¹⁰ As soon as you go, you will come to an ^(H)unsuspecting people. The land is spacious, for God has given it into your hands, ^(I)a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”

^6 (A)The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

²² And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. ²³ Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness. ²⁴ When Noah awoke from his wine ^(A)and knew what his youngest son had done to him, ²⁵ he said,

²⁶ He also said,

²⁸ After the flood Noah lived 350 years. ²⁹ All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.