18And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
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Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. …
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-23)Here is, I. Noah’s family and employment. The names of his sons are again mentioned ( Gen. 9:18 , 19 ) as those from whom the whole earth was overspread, by which it appears that Noah, after the flood, had no more children: all the world came from these three. Note, God, when he pleases, can make a little one to become a thousand , and greatly increase the latter end of those whose beginning was s…
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