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25 he said:

“Cursed be Caanan!
    The lowest of slaves
    shall he be to his brothers.”(A)

26 He also said:

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem!
    Let Canaan be his slave.
27 May God expand Japheth,[a]
    and may he dwell among the tents of Shem;
    and let Canaan be his slave.”

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Footnotes

  1. 9:27 In the Hebrew text there is a play on the words yapt (“expand”) and yepet (“Japheth”).

25 he said,

“Cursed(A) be Canaan!(B)
    The lowest of slaves
    will he be to his brothers.(C)

26 He also said,

“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Shem!(D)
    May Canaan be the slave(E) of Shem.
27 May God extend Japheth’s[a] territory;(F)
    may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,(G)
    and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 9:27 Japheth sounds like the Hebrew for extend.