Genesis 9:24
New International Version
When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him,

New Living Translation
When Noah woke up from his stupor, he learned what Ham, his youngest son, had done.

English Standard Version
When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him,

Berean Standard Bible
When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

King James Bible
And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

New King James Version
So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.

New American Standard Bible
When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him.

NASB 1995
When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him.

NASB 1977
When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Noah awoke from his wine, and he knew what his youngest son had done to him.

Amplified Bible
When Noah awoke from his wine [induced stupor], he knew what his younger son [Ham] had done to him.

Christian Standard Bible
When Noah awoke from his drinking and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When Noah awoke from his drinking and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

American Standard Version
And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto him.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Noah was awakened from his wine and knew everything that his youngest son had done to him.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Noe recovered from the wine, and knew all that his younger son had done to him.

Contemporary English Version
When Noah sobered up and learned what his youngest son had done,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,

English Revised Version
And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When Noah sobered up, he found out what his youngest son had done to him.

Good News Translation
When Noah sobered up and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

International Standard Version
When Noah sobered up and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto him.

Literal Standard Version
And Noah awakens from his wine, and knows that which his young son has done to him,

Majority Standard Bible
When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

New American Bible
When Noah woke up from his wine and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

NET Bible
When Noah awoke from his drunken stupor he learned what his youngest son had done to him.

New Revised Standard Version
When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him,

New Heart English Bible
Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.

World English Bible
Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

Young's Literal Translation
And Noah awaketh from his wine, and knoweth that which his young son hath done to him,

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Context
Noah's Shame and Canaan's Curse
23Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness. 24When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him, 25he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”…

Cross References
Genesis 9:23
Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father's nakedness.

Genesis 9:25
he said, "Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers."


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Genesis 9
1. God blesses Noah and his sons, and grants them flesh for food.
4. Blood and murder are forbidden.
8. God's covenant, of which the rainbow was constituted a pledge.
18. Noah's family replenishes the world.
20. Noah plants a vineyard,
21. Is drunken, and mocked by his son;
25. Curses Canaan;
26. Blesses Shem;
27. Prays for Japheth, and dies.














(24) Noah . . . knew what his younger son had done unto him.--Heb., his son, the little one. This can only mean his youngest son. So it is applied to Benjamin in Genesis 42:34; Genesis 43:29, and to David in 1Samuel 16:11, where the words literally are, there re- maineth yet the little one. Now Ham was not the youngest son, but Japheth; and it is not Ham who is cursed, but Canaan. So far from Ham being accursed, his descendants were building mighty cities, such as Egyptian Thebes, Nineveh, and Babylon, were rearing palaces, digging canals, organising governments, and founding empires at a time when the descendants of Japheth were wandering over Europe with no better weapons than implements of flint and bone. The application of the curse to Ham seems to have been suggested to commentators by the degradation of the African race in modern times, and especially by the prevalence of slavery: but anciently the converse was the case, and for centuries the Egyptians, a Hamite race, made the Israelites serve them.

We must not extend, therefore, to Ham the curse pronounced upon Canaan. But what had Canaan done to deserve it? As the son, the little one, was not Ham, so certainly it was not Japheth, but probably it was Canaan. He was the youngest son of Ham, and in Hebrew "son" is occasionally used for grandson (Genesis 29:5; Genesis 31:55), and so he might be described as Noah's youngest son, being the youngest member of his family. Origen quotes a tradition that Canaan was the first who saw Noah's exposure, and that he told it to his father. Aben Ezra says that Canaan had done worse than mock, though the Scripture does not in words reveal his crime. With some such surmise we must be content; and the meaning seems to be, "Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what (Canaan) his youngest son (or grandson) had done unto him; and it was a deed so shameless that he said, 'Cursed be Canaan.'" . . .

Verse 24. - And Noah awoke from his wine. I.e. the effects of his wine (cf. 1 Samuel 1:14; 1 Samuel 25:37); ἐξένηψε (LXX.); "became fully conscious of his condition" (T. Lewis). And knew. By inspiration (Alford); more probably by making inquiries as to the reason of the simlah covering him. What his younger son. Literally, his son, the little one, i.e. the youngest son (Willet, Murphy, Wordsworth, T. Lewis, Alford, Candlish), or the younger son (Keil, Bush, Karisch); cf. Genesis 5:32. Generally believed to have been Ham, though by many Canaan is understood (Aben Ezra, Theodoret, Procopius, Scaliger, Poole, Jamieson, Inglis, Lewis). Origen mentions a tradition that Canaan first saw the shame of Noah, and told it to his father. Wordsworth, following Chrysostom, believes Canaan may have been an accomplice. 'The Speaker's Commentary' thinks it would solve the difficulty which attaches to the cursing of Canaan.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When Noah
נֹ֖חַ (nō·aḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5146: Noah -- 'rest', patriarch who survived the flood

awoke
וַיִּ֥יקֶץ (way·yî·qeṣ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3364: To awake

from his drunkenness
מִיֵּינ֑וֹ (mî·yê·nōw)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3196: Wine, intoxication

and learned
וַיֵּ֕דַע (way·yê·ḏa‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

what
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

his youngest
הַקָּטָֽן׃ (haq·qā·ṭān)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6996: Small, young, unimportant

son
בְּנ֥וֹ (bə·nōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

had done
עָ֥שָׂה־ (‘ā·śāh-)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

to him,
ל֖וֹ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew


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