Genesis 9:18-26

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The Sons of Noah

¹⁸The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth.^(A) (Ham was the father of Canaan.)^(B) ¹⁹These were the three sons of Noah,^(C) and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.^(D)

²⁰Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded^[a] to plant a vineyard. ²¹When he drank some of its wine,^(E) he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. ²²Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked^(F) and told his two brothers outside. ²³But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.

²⁴When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, ²⁵he said,

“Cursed^(G) be Canaan!^(H)
The lowest of slaves
will he be to his brothers.^(I)”

²⁶He also said,

“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Shem!^(J)
May Canaan be the slave^(K) of Shem.

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Footnotes

Genesis 9:20 Or soil, was the first

Genesis 12:1-8

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The Call of Abram

12 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household^(A) to the land^(B) I will show you.^(C)

²“I will make you into a great nation,^(D)
    and I will bless you;^(E)
I will make your name great,
    and you will be a blessing.^[a]^(F)
³I will bless those who bless you,
    and whoever curses you I will curse;^(G)
and all peoples on earth
    will be blessed through you.^(H)”^[b]

⁴So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot^(I) went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old^(J) when he set out from Harran.^(K) ⁵He took his wife Sarai,^(L) his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated^(M) and the people^(N) they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan,^(O) and they arrived there.

⁶Abram traveled through the land^(P) as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh^(Q) at Shechem.^(R) At that time the Canaanites^(S) were in the land. ⁷The Lord appeared to Abram^(T) and said, “To your offspring^[c] I will give this land.^(U)”^(V) So he built an altar there to the Lord,^(W) who had appeared to him.

⁸From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel^(X) and pitched his tent,^(Y) with Bethel on the west and Ai^(Z) on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.^(AA)