Genesis 9:23

Overview - Genesis 9
God blesses Noah and his sons, and grants them flesh for food.
Blood and murder are forbidden.
God's covenant, of which the rainbow was constituted a pledge.
18 Noah's family replenish 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.
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Genesis 9:23  (King James Version)
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.
 


Exodus 20:12 ; Leviticus 19:32 ; Romans 13:7 ; Galatians 6:1 ; 1 Timothy 5:1 1 Timothy 5:17 1 Timothy 5:19 ; 1 Peter 2:17 ; 4:8