|
|
|
|
|||
The Sons of Noah 18The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)19These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth.20Noah, a man of the soil, proceededOr soil, was the first to plant a vineyard. 21When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside.23But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness.24When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him,25he said, 26He also said, 27May God extend the territory of JaphethJapheth sounds like the Hebrew for extend.; 28After the flood Noah lived 350 years.29Altogether, Noah lived 950 years, and then he died. |
|||||






