God's Promise to Noah

¹God said to Noah and his sons:[#Gn 1.28.]

⁸Again, God said to Noah and his sons:

Noah and His Family

¹⁸Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, left the boat. Ham later had a son named Canaan.

¹⁹All people on earth are descendants of Noah's three sons.

²⁰Noah farmed the land and was the first to plant a vineyard.

²¹One day he got drunk and was lying naked in his tent.

²²Ham entered the tent and saw him naked, then went back outside and told his brothers.

²³Shem and Japheth put a robe over their shoulders and walked backwards into the tent. Without looking at their father, they placed it over his body.

²⁴When Noah sobered up and learned what his youngest son had done,

²⁵he said,

“I now put a curse on Canaan!

He will be the lowest slave

of his brothers.

²⁶I ask the Lord my God

to bless Shem

and make Canaan his slave.

²⁷I pray God will give Japheth

more and more land

and let him take over

the territory of Shem.

May Canaan be his slave.”

²⁸Noah lived 350 years after the flood

²⁹and died at the age of 950.