Tree of Life Version
Genesis 9:21
21He drank some of the wine, got drunk, and was uncovered in his tent.
Genesis 9:21 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
- New International Version (NIV)When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent.
Context of Genesis 9:21
19These three were Noah’s sons, and from these the whole earth dispersed. 20Then Noah, a man of the soil, was first to plant a vineyard. He drank some of the wine, got drunk, and was uncovered in his tent. 22Then Ham, Canaan’s father, saw his father’s private parts and told his two brothers outside. 23So Shem and Japheth took the cloak and laid it over both their shoulders and walked backwards and with it covered their father’s private parts. But their faces were turned away, so they did not see their father’s private parts.
Read all of Genesis 9Genesis 9:21 word by word
וַיֵּ֥שְׁתְּ מִן־הַיַּ֖יִן וַיִּשְׁכָּ֑ר וַיִּתְגַּ֖ל בְּת֥וֹךְ אָהֳלֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Genesis 9:21
- Genesis 6:9These are the genealogies of Noah. Noah was a righteous man. He was blameless among his generation. Noah continually walked with God.
- Genesis 19:32Come on! Let’s make our father drink wine so that we can lie with him and keep the seed from our father alive.
- Proverbs 20:1Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is unwise.
- Proverbs 23:31Do not gaze at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it glides down smoothly.
- Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is not a righteous person on earth who does what is good and doesn’t sin.
- Luke 22:3Then satan entered into Judah, the one from Kriot, one of the twelve.
- Romans 13:13Let us walk properly as in the day—not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and envy.
- 1 Corinthians 10:12Therefore let the one who thinks that he stands watch out that he doesn’t fall.
- Galatians 5:21envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, just as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit God’s kingdom.
- Habakkuk 2:15Oy to one who makes his neighbor drink, who pours out Your fury, and even making him drunk In order to gaze at his nakedness!
- Revelation 3:18I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich, and white clothes so that you may dress yourself and so the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed, and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
Commentaries on Genesis 9:21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 21He drank of the wine, etc. - It is very probable that this was the first time the wine was cultivated; and it is as probable that the strength or intoxicating power of the expressed juice was never before known. Noah, therefore, might have drunk it at this time without the least blame, as he knew not till this trial the effects it would produce. I once knew a case which I believe to be perfectly parallel. A person who had scarcely ever heard of cider, and…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18-29Verses 18-29 - XXX. The Prophecy of Noah 18. כנען kena‛an “Kenaan, bowed down.” 19. נפץ nāpats “break, scatter, spread.” פוּץ pûts “break, scatter, flow.” 20. כרם kerem “orchard, vineyard.” 21. יין yayı̂n “wine; related: ferment.” After the blessing on the new heads of the human race has been pronounced, and the covenant with them renewed, we are prepared for a new development of human action. This appears, however, in the form of an event which is…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-23Verses 18-23 The drunkenness of Noah is recorded in the Bible, with that fairness which is found only in the Scripture, as a case and proof of human weakness and imperfection, even though he may have been surprised into the sin; and to show that the best of men cannot stand upright, unless they depend upon Divine grace, and are upheld thereby. Ham appears to have been a bad man, and probably rejoiced to find his father in an unbecoming situation. It was…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 21wine … became drunk: Wine is a gift from God (Deuteronomy 14:26; Psalm 104:15; Isaiah 55:1; see Luke 22:14–20; John 2:1–11). Scripture clearly teaches that drinking too much alcohol is a dangerous sin (Proverbs 23:20–21, 29–35; 1 Corinthians 6:10).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2121. And he drank of the wine, and was drunken--perhaps at the festivities of the vintage season. This solitary stain on the character of so eminently pious a man must, it is believed, have been the result of age or inadvertency.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Genesis 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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