Genesis 9:18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.

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New International Version
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)

New Living Translation
The sons of Noah who came out of the boat with their father were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham is the father of Canaan.)

English Standard Version
The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)

Berean Standard Bible
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.

King James Bible
And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

New King James Version
Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.

New American Standard Bible
Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.

NASB 1995
Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.

NASB 1977
Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.

Amplified Bible
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. Ham would become the father of Canaan.

Christian Standard Bible
Noah’s sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Noah’s sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.

American Standard Version
And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.

Contemporary English Version
Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, left the boat. Ham later had a son named Canaan.

English Revised Version
And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Noah's sons, who came out of the ship, were Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Good News Translation
The sons of Noah who went out of the boat were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)

International Standard Version
Noah's sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham later fathered Canaan.)

Majority Standard Bible
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.

NET Bible
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Now Ham was the father of Canaan.)

New Heart English Bible
The sons of Noah who came out from the vessel were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham was the father of Canaan.

World English Bible
The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

Literal Translations

Literal Standard Version
And the sons of Noah who are going out of the Ark are Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is father of Canaan.

Young's Literal Translation
And the sons of Noah who are going out of the ark are Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is father of Canaan.

Smith's Literal Translation
And the sons of Noah going forth from the ark shall be Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham he the father of Canaan.

Catholic Translations

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sons of Noe who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And so the sons of Noah, who came out of the ark, were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Now Ham himself is the father of Canaan.

New American Bible
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.

New Revised Standard Version
The sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.

Translations from Aramaic

Lamsa Bible
The sons of Noah who went forth out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And the sons of Noah that came out from the ark were Shym and Kham and Yaphet; Kham was the father of Canaan.

OT Translations

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Now the sons of Noe which came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, Japheth. And Cham was father of Chanaan.

Additional Translations ...

Audio Bible

Context

Noah's Sons
18The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan. 19These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.…

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Cross References

Genesis 10:1-32
This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood. / The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. / The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. ...

Genesis 5:32
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:10
And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 7:13
On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—

Genesis 8:16-18
“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives. / Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.” / So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

Genesis 10:21
And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.

Genesis 11:10-32
This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad. / And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters. / When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah. ...

1 Chronicles 1:4
The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

1 Chronicles 1:24-27
So from Shem came Arphaxad, Shelah, / Eber, Peleg, Reu, / Serug, Nahor, Terah, ...

Luke 3:36-38
the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, / the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan, / the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

Acts 17:26
From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

1 Peter 3:20
who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.

2 Peter 2:5
if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;

Matthew 24:37-39
As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man. / For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. / And they were oblivious until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.

Treasury of Scripture

And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

Shem.

Genesis 9:23
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

1 Chronicles 1:4
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Ham.

Genesis 10:1,6
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood…

Canaan.

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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.

Berean Study Bible

The sons of Noah
This phrase introduces the three sons of Noah, who are pivotal figures in the post-flood narrative. In Hebrew, "sons" is "בָּנִים" (banim), indicating not just biological offspring but also heirs to Noah's legacy. These sons represent the continuation of humanity after the flood, tasked with repopulating and stewarding the earth. Their roles are foundational in the genealogies that follow, which trace the origins of nations and peoples.

who came out of the ark
This phrase emphasizes the deliverance and survival of Noah's family. The ark, "תֵּבָה" (tevah) in Hebrew, symbolizes God's provision and protection amidst judgment. The act of coming out signifies a new beginning, a fresh start for humanity under God's covenant. It marks a transition from divine judgment to divine blessing and the reestablishment of human society.

were Shem, Ham, and Japheth
These names are significant in the biblical narrative. Shem, "שֵׁם" (Shem), means "name" or "renown," and his descendants are traditionally associated with the Semitic peoples, including the Israelites. Ham, "חָם" (Cham), means "hot" or "warm," and his lineage is often linked to African and some Near Eastern peoples. Japheth, "יֶפֶת" (Yefet), means "expansion" or "enlargement," and his descendants are associated with the Indo-European peoples. These names and their meanings hint at the roles and destinies of their respective lineages.

Ham was the father of Canaan
This phrase introduces a significant detail about Ham, linking him directly to Canaan. In the biblical narrative, Canaan becomes a central figure, as his descendants inhabit the land that God later promises to Abraham and his descendants. The mention of Canaan here foreshadows the complex relationships and conflicts between the Israelites and the Canaanites. It also sets the stage for the later narrative of the curse of Canaan, which has been the subject of much theological discussion and interpretation. The focus on Canaan highlights the importance of lineage and the unfolding of God's plan through specific family lines.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(18) Ham is the father of Canaan.--Though human life had thus begun again upon a firmer footing, yet evil and discord were soon to reappear, though in a milder form. No brother sheds a brother's blood, but in the next generation sin breaks forth afresh, and the human family is disunited thereby, the descendants of Canaan taking the place of the Cainites--without indeed, their striking gifts, but nevertheless as a race foremost in trade and commerce. After enumerating the three sons of Noah, we are told: "Of '--more correctly, from--"them was the whole earth overspread," that is, peopled.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 18. - And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, who are here again mentioned as the heads of the nations into which the family of man developed, the writer having described the important modifications made upon the law of nature and the covenant of grace, and being now about to proceed with the onward course of human history. The present section, extending to ver. 27, is usually assigned to the Jehovistic author (Tuch,Bleek, Kalisch, Colenso, Kuenen), though by Davidson it is ascribed to a so-called redactor, with the exception of the present clause, which is recognized as the Jehovist's contribution to the story. The ground of this apportionment is the introduction of the name Jehovah in ver. 26 (q.v.), and certain traces throughout the paragraph of the style of writing supposed to be peculiar to the supplementer. And Ham is the father of Canaan. Kena'an, the depressed or low one; either the Lowlander or inhabitant of a tow coast country, as opposed to the loftier regions (Aram); from kana , to be low, depressed, in situation, as of land (Gesenius); or more probably the servile one in spirit (Furst, Murphy, Keil, Lange). The reason for the insertion of this notice here, and of the similar one in ver. 22, was obviously to draw attention to the circumstance, not "that the origin of Israel's ascendancy and of Canaan's degradation dates so far back as the family of the second founder of the human race," as if the writer's standpoint were long subsequent to the conquest (Kalisch), but that, "as Israel was now going to possess the land of Canaan, they might know that now was the time when the curse of Canaan and his posterity should take place" (Wilier).

Parallel Commentaries ...

Hebrew

The sons
בְנֵי־ (ḇə·nê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

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

who came out
הַיֹּֽצְאִים֙ (hay·yō·ṣə·’îm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

of
מִן־ (min-)
Preposition
Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of

the ark
הַתֵּבָ֔ה (hat·tê·ḇāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8392: A box, chest

were
וַיִּֽהְי֣וּ (way·yih·yū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

Shem,
שֵׁ֖ם (šêm)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8035: Shem -- 'name', oldest son of Noah

Ham,
וְחָ֣ם (wə·ḥām)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 2526: Ham -- a son of Noah, also his descendants, also a name for Egyptians

and Japheth.
וָיָ֑פֶת (wā·yā·p̄eṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3315: Japheth -- a son of Noah

And Ham
וְחָ֕ם (wə·ḥām)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 2526: Ham -- a son of Noah, also his descendants, also a name for Egyptians

was the father
אֲבִ֥י (’ă·ḇî)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1: Father

of Canaan.
כְנָֽעַן׃ (ḵə·nā·‘an)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3667: Canaan -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their land West of the Jordan

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