23. Shem and Japheth, however, took a robe, and holding it on their shoulders, they walked backward and covered their father’s nakedness; since their faces were turned the other way, they did not see their father’s nakedness.
24. When Noah woke up from his wine and learned what his youngest son had done to him,
25. he said:“Cursed be Caanan!The lowest of slavesshall he be to his brothers.”
26. He also said:“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem!Let Canaan be his slave.
27. May God expand Japheth,and may he dwell among the tents of Shem;and let Canaan be his slave.”
28. Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.
29. The whole lifetime of Noah was nine hundred and fifty years; then he died.