Event · The Beginning and Early Generations
Noah and his sons
Noah and his sonsGenesis 9:18–29No calendar date
Noah plants a vineyard and becomes drunk; Ham sees his nakedness, and Noah pronounces blessings and a curse.
- Main passage Genesis 9:18–29
People Noah
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- Explicit biblical sequence Scripture itself gives the order of these events.
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Genesis gives these events an order but no calendar date. Totals worked out from the genealogies depend on assumptions and differ between the Hebrew, Greek and Samaritan texts.
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Genesis 9:18–29 WEB
18The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan. 19These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated. 20Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard. 21He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent. 22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. 23Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness. 24Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him. 25He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.” 26He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant. 27May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.” 28Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood. 29All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.