Noah and His Three Sons After the Flood

9:18-29

18 Noah’s sons who came out of the boat after the flood were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; it was Ham who was Canaan’s father. 19 It was the descendants of Noah’s three sons who populated the entire earth again.

20 After a while, Noah, who was a farmer, planted some grape vines and made wine from the grapes. 21 Then one day he drank too much of the wine, so that he became drunk and was lying naked inside his tent. 22 Ham, who was Canaan’s father, saw that his father was naked, and he went outside and told his two brothers about it. 23 However, Shem and Japheth took a robe, and held it between them at shoulder level and walked backward into the tent and covered their father’s naked body with it. As they did that, they kept their faces turned away from him so that they would not see him naked.

24 Later Noah woke up from being drunk, and he found out that his youngest son Ham had dishonored him. 25 So he exclaimed about him,

“I ask God to curse Ham’s son Canaan!

Canaan will be the lowest servant for his relatives.”

26 Then Noah said,

“Praise Yahweh, who is the God who takes care of Shem!

May God cause Canaan to be Shem’s servant.

27 I also ask God to give Japheth much land

and enable him to live together in peace with Shem.

May God also cause Canaan to be Japheth’s servant.”

28 From the time that the flood began, Noah lived another 350 years, 29 so that he lived a total of 950 years before he died.