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14 genesis 9:23
9:12 – 16 o ­ ut­side. 23  But Shem and Ja­pheth took a gar­ment and laid it
across ­their shoul­ders; then they ­walked in back­ward and
cov­ered t ­ heir fa­ther’s na­ked body. ­T heir fac­es were ­t urned
the oth­er way so that they w
­ ould not see t ­ heir fa­ther na­ked.
24  W hen Noah ­awoke from his wine and ­found out what
his youn­gest son had done to him, 25  he said,
The sign of the rainbow
God knows that people tend to
forget things, even important
things like his faithfulness. God
said the rainbow is a reminder
to people that he will keep his
promise to never destroy the world
again with a flood.
“Cursed be Canaan!
The lowest of slaves
will he be to his brothers.”
26  He
also said,
“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Shem!
May Canaan be the slave of Shem.
27 May God extend Japheth’s  a territory;
may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,
and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”
28  A f­ter the ­f lood Noah ­lived 350 ­years. 29  Noah ­lived a
to­tal of 950 y ­ ears, and then he died.
T H E TA B L E O F N AT I O NS
10
This is the ac­count of Shem, Ham and Ja­pheth, No­
ah’s sons, who them­selves had sons af­ter the flood.
THE JAPHETHITES
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Ham mistreats Noah.
Ham did not show respect for his
father, Noah. Instead of covering
his father’s nakedness as his
brothers did, Ham told others
about his father’s drunkenness and
nakedness.
2 The sons  b of Ja­pheth:
Go­mer, Ma­gog, Mad­a i, Ja­van, Tu­bal, Me­shek and
Ti­ras.
3 The sons of Go­mer:
Ash­ke­naz, Ri­phath and To­gar­mah.
4 The sons of Ja­van:
Eli­shah, Tar­shish, the Kit­tites and the Rod­a­nites.  c
5  ( From t ­ hese the mar­i­t ime peo­ples ­spread out into
their ter­ri­to­ries by ­their ­c lans with­in ­their na­tions,
each with its own lan­g uage.)
THE HAMITES
6 The sons of Ham:
Cush, ­Egypt, Put and Ca­naan.
7 The sons of Cush:
Seba, Hav­i ­lah, Sab­tah, Ra­a­mah and Sab­te­k a.
The sons of Ra­a­mah:
She­ba and De­dan.
8  Cush was the fa­t her  d of Nim­rod, who be­came a ­m ighty
­ ighty hunt­er be­fore the
war­rior on the e ­ arth. 9  He was a m
Lord; that is why it is said, “Like Nim­rod, a m
­ ighty hunt­er
be­fore the Lord.” 10  T he f ­ irst cen­ters of his king­dom were
Bab­ylon, Uruk, Ak­k ad and Kal­neh, in  e Shi­nar.  f 11  From
that land he went to As­syr­ia, ­where he b
­ uilt Nin­e ­veh,
a  27  Japheth sounds like the Hebrew for extend.    b  2  Sons may mean
descendants or successors or nations; also in verses 3, 4, 6, 7, 20-23, 29 and 31.   
c  4  Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text and Samaritan Pentateuch
(see also Septuagint and 1 Chron. 1:7); most manuscripts of the Masoretic
Text Dodanites    d  8  Father may mean ancestor or predecessor or founder;
also in verses 13, 15, 24 and 26.    e  10 Or Uruk and Akkad — ​all of
them in    f  10 That is, Babylonia