Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
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18 And the sons of Noe, who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan.
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The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)
19 These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.
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These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.
20 And Noe a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard.
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Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
21 And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent.
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When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.
22 Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father’s nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.
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Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.
23 But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
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But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.
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