Génesis 9:23

23 Entonces Sem y Jafet tomaron un manto, se lo pusieron sobre los hombros y entraron de espaldas a la carpa para cubrir a su padre. Mientras lo hacían, miraban para otro lado a fin de no ver a su padre 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 Cierto día, bebió del vino que había hecho y se emborrachó, y estaba recostado y desnudo dentro de su carpa.

22 Cam, el padre de Canaán, vio que su padre estaba desnudo y salió a contárselo a sus hermanos.

23 Entonces Sem y Jafet tomaron un manto, se lo pusieron sobre los hombros y entraron de espaldas a la carpa para cubrir a su padre. Mientras lo hacían, miraban para otro lado a fin de no ver a su padre desnudo.

24 Cuando Noé despertó de su estupor, se enteró de lo que había hecho Cam, su hijo menor.

25 Entonces maldijo a Canaán, el hijo de Cam:
«¡Maldito sea Canaán!
¡Que sea el más inferior de los siervos para con sus familiares!».