Génesis 9:23

23 Entonces Sem y Jafet tomaron un manto, se lo echaron sobre los hombros, y caminando hacia atrás, cubrieron la desnudez de su padre. Como miraban en dirección opuesta, no lo vieron desnudo.

Génesis 9:23 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 9:23

And Shem and Japheth took a garment
Who were the two brothers Ham told what he had seen, and who, no doubt, reproved him for his ill behaviour, and then took a garment, a coat of their own, very probably, some large garment fit for the purpose;

and laid it upon both their shoulders;
one part of it on the right shoulder of the one, and the other on the left shoulder of the other:

and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father;
going backward when they came into the tent, and to the place where their father lay, they threw the garment off from their shoulders over him, and so covered him:

and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's
nakedness:
which they purposely shunned, for which reason they went backwards, and their faces were backwards to their father; which showed their modesty, and their filial piety and duty, and thus by their actions reproved Ham, as well as doubtless they did by words.

Génesis 9:23 In-Context

21 Un día, bebió vino y se embriagó, quedándose desnudo dentro de su carpa.

22 Cam, el padre de Canaán, vio a su padre desnudo y fue a contárselo a sus hermanos, que estaban afuera.

23 Entonces Sem y Jafet tomaron un manto, se lo echaron sobre los hombros, y caminando hacia atrás, cubrieron la desnudez de su padre. Como miraban en dirección opuesta, no lo vieron desnudo.

24 Cuando Noé despertó de su borrachera y se enteró de lo que su hijo menor le había hecho,

25 declaró:«¡Maldito sea Canaán!Será de sus dos hermanosel más bajo de sus esclavos».