Genesis 9:18-29 - Noah's Descendants

¹⁸ The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. Ham would become the father of Canaan. ¹⁹ These are the three sons of Noah, and from these [men] the whole earth was populated and scattered with inhabitants.

²⁰ And Noah began to farm and cultivate the ground and he planted a vineyard. ²¹ He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he was uncovered and lay exposed inside his tent. ²² Ham, the father of Canaan, saw [by accident] the nakedness of his father, and [to his father’s shame] told his two brothers outside. ²³ So Shem and Japheth took a robe and put it on both their shoulders, and walked backwards and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

²⁴ When Noah awoke from his wine [induced stupor], he knew what his younger son [Ham] had done to him. ²⁵ So he said,

“Cursed be Canaan [the son of Ham];
A servant of servants
He shall be to his brothers.”

²⁶ He also said,

“Blessed be the Lord,
The God of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.
²⁷
“May God enlarge [the land of] Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.”

²⁸ Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. ²⁹ So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.