Genesis 9
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Genesis 9:20-28

20Noah, a farmer, was the first person to plant a vineyard.

21He drank some wine, got drunk, and lay naked inside his tent.

22Ham, father of Canaan, saw his father naked. So he went outside and told his two brothers.

23Shem and Japheth took a blanket and laid it over their shoulders. Then they walked in backwards and covered their father’s naked body. They turned their faces away so that they didn’t see their father naked.

24When Noah sobered up, he found out what his youngest son had done to him.

25So he said, “Canaan is cursed! He will be the lowest slave to his brothers.

26Praise the Lord, the God of Shem! Canaan will be his slave.

27May God expand the territory of Japheth. May he live in the tents of Shem. Canaan will be his slave.”

28Noah lived 350 years after the flood.

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