King James Version (KJV)
Genesis 9:23
“And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid [it] upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces [were] backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.”
Verse in context — Genesis 9
21
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
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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 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid [it] upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces [were] backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
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And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
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And he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).
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