20 Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded [1] to plant a vineyard. 21 But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
23 Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
24 When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said,
“Cursed be Canaan!
A servant of servants
shall he be to his brothers.”
Shem’s Blessing and Noah’s Death
26 He also declared:
“Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem!
May Canaan be the servant of Shem.
27 May God expand the territory of Japheth;[2]
may he dwell in the tents of Shem,
and may Canaan be his servant.”
28 After the flood, Noah lived 350 years. 29 So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.
The Table of Nations
(1 Chronicles 1:4–27)
10 This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.
The Japhethites
2 The sons of Japheth:
Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
3 The sons of Gomer:
Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4 And the sons of Javan:
Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.[3] 5 From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.
The Hamites
6 The sons of Ham:
Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
7 The sons of Cush:
Seba, Havilah, Sabtah,[4] Raamah, and Sabteca.
And the sons of Raamah:
Sheba and Dedan.
8 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one [5] on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before [6] the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.” 10 His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.[7] 11 From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, 12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
13 Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites, 14 the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.[8]
15 And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn,[9] and of the Hittites, 16 the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, 17 the Hivites,
- ↑ 20 Or was the first
- ↑ 27 Japheth sounds like the Hebrew for expand.
- ↑ 4 SP and some MT manuscripts (see also LXX and 1 Chronicles 1:7); most MT manuscripts Dodanites
- ↑ 7 Sabtah is a variant of Sabta; see 1 Chronicles 1:9.
- ↑ 8 Or who established himself as a mighty warrior or who became the first fearless leader
- ↑ 9 Or in defiance of; twice in this verse
- ↑ 10 That is, Babylonia
- ↑ 14 Some translators adjust the Hebrew word order to the Casluhites, and the Caphtorites (from whom the Philistines came); see also Jeremiah 47:4 and Amos 9:7.
- ↑ 15 Or of the Sidonians, the foremost
