Gênesis 9:23

23 Então tomaram Sem e Jafé uma capa, e puseram-na sobre os seus ombros, e andando virados para trás, cobriram a nudez de seu pai, tendo os rostos virados, de maneira que não viram a nudez de seu pai.

Gênesis 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.

Gênesis 9:23 In-Context

21 Bebeu do vinho, e embriagou-se; e achava-se nu dentro da sua tenda.

22 E Cão, pai de Canaã, viu a nudez de seu pai, e o contou a seus dois irmãos que estavam fora.

23 Então tomaram Sem e Jafé uma capa, e puseram-na sobre os seus ombros, e andando virados para trás, cobriram a nudez de seu pai, tendo os rostos virados, de maneira que não viram a nudez de seu pai.

24 Despertado que foi Noé do seu vinho, soube o que seu filho mais moço lhe fizera;

25 e disse: Maldito seja Canaã; servo dos servos será de seus irmãos.