Genesis 9:24

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

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KJV

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

ASV

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

YLT

And Noah awaketh from his wine, and knoweth that which his young son hath done to him,

DBT

And Noah awoke from his wine, and learned what his youngest son had done to him.

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But Noah, awakening from his wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him, said: Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers. Awakening from wine, Noah curses his offspring by whom he was mocked; however, …

Bede· Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron), 735patristic

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For another mystery was accomplished and predicted in the days of Noah, of which you are not aware. It is this: in the blessings wherewith Noah blessed his two sons, and in the curse pronounced on his son's son. For the Spirit of prophecy would not curse the son that had been by God blessed along with [his brothers]. But since the punishment of the sin would cleave to the whole descent of the son that mocked at his father's nakedness, he made the curse originate with his son.

Justin Martyr· Dialogue with Trypho, Chapter CXXXIX, 165patristic

Now the three sons of Noah were Shem, Ham and Japheth, from whom again the race was multiplied: for these were the beginning of mankind after the flood. Now of these one fell under a curse, and the two (others) inherited a blessing by reason of their works.

Irenaeus· The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, Sections 19-21, 202patristic

And Noah awoke from his wine,....

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

It is probable that there is a long interval included between these verses and that this prophecy, like that of Jacob on his sons, was not uttered till near the close of Noah's life when the prophetic spirit came upon him; this presumption is strengthened by the mention of his death immediately after.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Genesis 5:29
And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”

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Who & where

PersonPrimevalNoahThe righteous 'preacher of righteousness' who found grace and, by faith, built the ark — through whom the race survived the Flood.

About this book

Noah Curses Ham and Canaan — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866) — public domain

Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)