Genesis 9:26 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 9:26

And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

KJV

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ASV

And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.

WEB

He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.

YLT

And he saith: `Blessed of Jehovah my God is Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.

DBT

And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, theGod of Shem, And let Canaan be his bondman.

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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.

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)

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The Seed PromiseThe covenant line narrows to Shem.

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16 verses on the floor

Psalms 144:15
Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
Genesis 12:1–3
Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
Hebrews 11:16
But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Luke 1:68
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
Deuteronomy 33:26
There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.

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Observe, [1.] He calls the Lord the god of Shem; and happy, thrice happy, is that people whose God is the L ORD , Ps. cxliv. All blessings are included in this.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

And again, many dwell in large tents that do not dwell in God's tents, as Japheth did. Secondly, Shem has the blessing of heaven above: He shall (that is, God shall) dwell in the tents of Shem, that is "From his loins Christ shall come, and in his seed the church shall be continued. " The birth-right was now to be divided between Shem and Japheth, Ham being utterly discarded.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Blessed be the Lord God of Shem--rather, "Blessed of Jehovah, my God, be Shem,"--an intimation that the descendants of Shem should be peculiarly honored in the service of the true God, His Church being for ages established among them (the Jews), and of them, concerning the flesh, Christ came.

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

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Messianic Stop Genesis 12:3
Shem -> Abraham: 'in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed'
MT-ASV; Gal 3:8
Messianic Stop Genesis 4:25
post-flood the line narrows to Shem
MT-ASV

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