Genesis 9:25 - Easy To Read Version So Noah said, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He exclaimed, Cursed be Canaan! He shall be the servant of servants to his brethren! [Deut. 27:16.] American Standard Version (1901) And he said, Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. Common English Bible He said, “Cursed be Canaan: the lowest servant he will be for his brothers.” Catholic Public Domain Version he said, "Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants will he be to his brothers." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He said: Cursed be Chaanan; a servant of servant shall he be unto his brethren. |
{You killed your brother,} and the ground opened up to take his blood from your hands. So now, I will cause bad things to happen to that ground.
Their anger is a curse. It is too strong. They are too cruel when they are mad. They will not get their own land in the land of Jacob. They will be spread throughout Israel.”
Noah’s sons came out of the boat with him. Their names were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)
Ham, the father of Canaan, looked at his naked father. Ham told his brothers outside the tent.
Later, Noah woke up. (He was sleeping because of the wine.) Then he learned what his young son, Ham, had done to him.
“Then the king will say to those bad people on his left, ‘Go away from me. God has already decided that you will be punished. Go into the fire that burns forever. That fire was prepared for the devil and his angels.
Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth. Every person that sins is a slave. Sin is his master.
“{The Levites will say,} ‘Cursed is the person that does things that show he does not respect his father or his mother!’
The Lord will curse you, and you will not have many children. He will curse your land and you will not have good crops. He will curse your animals and they will not have many babies. He will curse all your calves and lambs.
Now, your people will have many troubles. All of your people will be slaves—they will have to cut wood and carry water for the house of God. [46] ”
Joshua made the people of Gibeon become slaves of the people of Israel. They cut wood and carried water for the people of Israel and for the altar of the Lord—wherever the Lord chose it to be. Those people are still slaves today.