25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
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Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out. …
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-27)II. The spirit of prophecy comes upon him, and, like dying Jacob, he tells his sons what shall befal them, Gen. 49:1. 1. He pronounces a curse on Canaan the son of Ham (Gen. 9:25), in whom Ham is himself cursed, either because this son of his was now more guilty than the rest, or because the posterity of this son was afterwards to be rooted out of their land, to make room for Israel. And Moses her…
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