Genesis Chapter 9 verse 22 Holy Bible
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.
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And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren outside.
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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
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Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
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And Ham, father of Canaan, seeth the nakedness of his father, and declareth to his two brethren without.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 22. - And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness. Pudenda, from a root (עָרָה) signifying to make naked, from a kindred root to which (עָרם) comes the term expressive of the nakedness of Adam and Eve after eating the forbidden fruit (Genesis 3:7). The sin of Ham - not a trifling and unintentional transgression" (Von Bohlen) - obviously lay not in seeing what perhaps he may have come upon unexpectedly, but (1) in wickedly rejoicing in what he saw, which, considering who he was that was overcome with wine, - "the minister of salvation to men, and the chief restorer of the world," - the relation in which he stood to Ham, - that of father, - the advanced age to which he had now come, and the comparatively mature years of Ham himself, who was "already more than a hundred years old," should have filled him with sincere sorrow; "sed nunquam vino victum pattern filius risisset, nisi prius ejecisset animo illam reverentiam et opinionem, quae in liberis de parentibus ex mandato Dei existere debet" (Luther); and (2) in reporting it, doubtless with a malicious purpose, to his brethren. And told his two brethren without. Possibly inviting them to come and look upon their father's shame.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(22, 23) Ham . . . saw . . . and told.--The sin lay not in seeing, which might be unintentional, but in telling, especially if his purpose was to ridicule his father. His brothers, with filial piety, "take a garment," the loose outer robe or cloak enveloping the whole body, and with reverent delicacy walk backwards, and lay it upon their father's person.