20 Noah started to cultivate the ground as a farmer, and he planted a vineyard. 21 He drank some of the wine he’d produced, got drunk, and fell asleep in his tent, naked. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s private parts and went and told his two brothers who were outside. 23 Shem and Japheth picked up a cloak and, holding it over their shoulders, walked in backwards and covered up their father’s privates. They made sure to look the other way so they wouldn’t see their father’s privates.
24 When Noah woke up from his drunken sleep, he discovered what his youngest son had done, 25 and said, "May Canaan9:25. Why Canaan is the one cursed and not Ham has long been a matter of debate. One suggestion is that it was the later Canaanites who were the particular enemies of Israel and who were subjugated by them, and so Canaan was prophetically more symbolically significant. be cursed! He will be the lowest kind of slave and will serve his brothers!"