Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version He also said, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem. New Living Translation Then Noah said, “May the LORD, the God of Shem, be blessed, and may Canaan be his servant! English Standard Version He also said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant. Berean Standard Bible He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem. King James Bible And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. New King James Version And he said: “Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem, And may Canaan be his servant. New American Standard Bible He also said, “Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem; And may Canaan be his servant. NASB 1995 He also said, “Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant. NASB 1977 He also said, “Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant. Legacy Standard Bible And he said, “Blessed be Yahweh, The God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant. Amplified Bible He also said, “Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant. Christian Standard Bible He also said: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; Let Canaan be Shem’s slave. Holman Christian Standard Bible He also said: Praise the LORD, the God of Shem; Canaan will be his slave. American Standard Version And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And he said, “LORD JEHOVAH the God of Sheem is blessed and Canaan will be a Servant to them. Brenton Septuagint Translation And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, and Chanaan shall be his bond-servant. Contemporary English Version I ask the LORD my God to bless Shem and make Canaan his slave. Douay-Rheims Bible And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant. English Revised Version And he said, Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant. GOD'S WORD® Translation Praise the LORD, the God of Shem! Canaan will be his slave. Good News Translation Give praise to the LORD, the God of Shem! Canaan will be the slave of Shem. International Standard Version He also said, "Blessed be the LORD God of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave. JPS Tanakh 1917 And he said: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; And let Canaan be their servant. Literal Standard Version And he says: “Blessed of my God YHWH [is] Shem, | And Canaan is servant to him. Majority Standard Bible He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem. New American Bible He also said: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! Let Canaan be his slave. NET Bible He also said, "Worthy of praise is the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem! New Revised Standard Version He also said, “Blessed by the LORD my God be Shem; and let Canaan be his slave. New Heart English Bible He said, "Blessed be the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant. Webster's Bible Translation And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. World English Bible He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant. Young's Literal Translation And he saith: 'Blessed of Jehovah my God is Shem, And Canaan is servant to him. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Shem's Blessing and Noah's Death26He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem. 27May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”… Cross References Genesis 14:20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything. Genesis 24:27 saying, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master's relatives." Genesis 27:29 May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed." 1 Kings 9:21 their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction--Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day. Treasury of Scripture And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. Blessed. Deuteronomy 33:26 There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. Psalm 144:15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD. Romans 9:5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. the Lord. Genesis 10:10-26 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar… Genesis 12:1-3 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: … Luke 3:23-36 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, … Sem. Hebrews 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. his servant. Genesis 27:37,40 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son? … Jump to Previous Blessed Bondman Canaan Praise Servant Shem SlaveJump to Next Blessed Bondman Canaan Praise Servant Shem SlaveGenesis 9 1. God blesses Noah and his sons, and grants them flesh for food.4. Blood and murder are forbidden. 8. God's covenant, of which the rainbow was constituted a pledge. 18. Noah's family replenishes 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. (26) Blessed be Jehovah.--The greatness of Shem's blessing is shown by its taking the form of a hymn of praise to Jehovah, the personal God; and the patriarch's fervent outburst of thanksgiving was a presage of the hallelujahs that were to arise unto God from all mankind for the birth of that son of Shem in whom all nations were to be blessed. The following words should be translated, And let Canaan be their servant, the servant both of Shem and Japheth. (See margin.)Verse 26. - And he said - not "Blessed of Jehovah, my God, be Shem" (Jamieson), as might have been anticipated (this, equally with the omission of Ham's name, lifts the entire patriarchal utterance out of the region of mere personal feeling), but - Blessed - בָּרוּך when applied to God signifies an ascription of praise (cf. Psalm 144:15; Ephesians 1:3); when applied to man, an invocation of good (cf. Genesis 14:19, 20; Psalm 128:1; Hebrews 7:6) - be the Lord God - literally, Jehovah, Elohim of Shem (cf. Genesis 24:27); Jehovah being the proper personal name of God, of whom it is predicated that he is the Elohim of Shem; equivalent to a statement not simply that Shem should enjoy "a rare and transcendent," "Divine or heavenly," blessing (Calvin), or "a most abundant blessing, reaching its highest point in the promised Seed" (Luther); but that Jehovah, the one living and true God, should be his God, and that the knowledge and practice of the true religion should continue among his descendants, with, perhaps, a hint that the promised Seed should spring from his loins (OEeolampadius, Willet, Murphy, Keil, etc.) - of Shem. In the name Shem (name, renown) there may lie an allusion to the spiritual exaltation and advancement of the Semitic nations (vide Genesis 5:32). And Canaan shall be his servant. לָמו = לָהֶס (Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic), i.e. the two brothers (Delitzsch), their descendants (Knobel, Keil), Shem and Jehovah (Bush); or more probably - לו, as a collective singular (cf. Gesenius, § 103, 2), i.e. Shem, including his descendants (LXX., αὐτοῦ; Kalisch, Lange, Murphy). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew He also declared:וַיֹּ֕אמֶר (way·yō·mer) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 559: To utter, say “Blessed בָּר֥וּךְ (bā·rūḵ) Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular Strong's 1288: To kneel, to bless God, man, to curse [be] the LORD, יְהֹוָ֖ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel the God אֱלֹ֣הֵי (’ĕ·lō·hê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative of Shem! שֵׁ֑ם (šêm) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 8035: Shem -- 'name', oldest son of Noah May Canaan כְנַ֖עַן (ḵə·na·‘an) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3667: Canaan -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their land West of the Jordan be וִיהִ֥י (wî·hî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be the servant עֶ֥בֶד (‘e·ḇeḏ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5650: Slave, servant of [Shem]. לָֽמוֹ׃ (lā·mōw) Preposition | third person masculine plural Strong's 3926: To or foreign Links Genesis 9:26 NIVGenesis 9:26 NLT Genesis 9:26 ESV Genesis 9:26 NASB Genesis 9:26 KJV Genesis 9:26 BibleApps.com Genesis 9:26 Biblia Paralela Genesis 9:26 Chinese Bible Genesis 9:26 French Bible Genesis 9:26 Catholic Bible OT Law: Genesis 9:26 He said Blessed be Yahweh the God (Gen. 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