Genesis 9:25-29

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²⁵So he said,

“Cursed be Canaan [the son of Ham];
^[a]A servant of servants
He shall be to his brothers.”^(A)

²⁶He also said,

“Blessed be the Lord,
The God of ^[b]Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.
²⁷
“May God enlarge [the land of] Japheth,
And ^[c]let ^[d]him dwell in the tents of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.”

²⁸Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. ²⁹So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

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Footnotes

Genesis 9:25 The words of Noah are prophetic. God later found the disobedience of the Canaanites to be repulsive and replaced them with the descendants of Shem.
Genesis 9:26 The Jewish people are the descendants of Shem. Through Shem’s lineage came the Messiah and salvation.
Genesis 9:27 Note that “let” in this verse represents a command, as in “Let there be light” (1:3).
Genesis 9:27 The antecedent of the word “him” could be Japheth, but it could also be “God,” thus making Him (the Messiah) dwell in the tents of Shem indicating the incarnation in the Semitic line.