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Genesis 9:19-29 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

19. These three are the sons of Noah. And from these all the family of mankind was spread over the whole earth.

20. And Noah, a good farmer, began to cultivate the land, and he planted a vineyard.

21. And by drinking its wine, he became inebriated and was naked in his tent.

22. Because of this, when Ham, the father of Canaan, had indeed seen the privates of his father to be naked, he reported it to his two brothers outside.

23. And truly, Shem and Japheth put a cloak upon their arms, and, advancing backwards, covered the privates of their father. And their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father's manhood.

24. Then Noah, awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,

25. he said, "Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants will he be to his brothers."

26. And he said: "Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, let Canaan be his servant.

27. May God enlarge Japheth, and may he live in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant."

28. And after the great flood, Noah lived for three hundred and fifty years.

29. And all his days were completed in nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.

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