Génesis 9:23

23 Entonces Sem y Jafet tomaron la ropa, y la pusieron sobre los hombros de ambos, y andando hacia atrás, cubrieron la desnudez de su padre teniendo vueltos los rostros, para que no vieran la desnudez de su padre

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 y bebió del vino, y se embriagó, y se descubrió en medio de su tienda

22 Y Cam, padre de Canaán, vio la desnudez de su padre, y lo dijo a sus dos hermanos que estaban fuera

23 Entonces Sem y Jafet tomaron la ropa, y la pusieron sobre los hombros de ambos, y andando hacia atrás, cubrieron la desnudez de su padre teniendo vueltos los rostros, para que no vieran la desnudez de su padre

24 Y despertó Noé de su vino, y supo lo que había hecho con él su hijo el más joven

25 y dijo: Maldito sea Canaán; siervo de siervos será a sus hermanos