Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) New Living Translation The sons of Noah who came out of the boat with their father were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham is the father of Canaan.) English Standard Version The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) Berean Standard Bible The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan. King James Bible And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. New King James Version Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan. New American Standard Bible Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan. NASB 1995 Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan. NASB 1977 Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan. Legacy Standard Bible Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan. Amplified Bible The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. Ham would become the father of Canaan. Christian Standard Bible Noah’s sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan. Holman Christian Standard Bible Noah’s sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan. American Standard Version And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And the sons of Noah that came out from the ark were Shym and Kham and Yaphet; Kham was the father of Canaan. Brenton Septuagint Translation Now the sons of Noe which came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, Japheth. And Cham was father of Chanaan. Contemporary English Version Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, left the boat. Ham later had a son named Canaan. Douay-Rheims Bible And the sons of Noe who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan. English Revised Version And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. GOD'S WORD® Translation Noah's sons, who came out of the ship, were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Good News Translation The sons of Noah who went out of the boat were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) International Standard Version Noah's sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham later fathered Canaan.) JPS Tanakh 1917 And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan. Literal Standard Version And the sons of Noah who are going out of the Ark are Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is father of Canaan. Majority Standard Bible The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan. New American Bible The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan. NET Bible The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Now Ham was the father of Canaan.) New Revised Standard Version The sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan. New Heart English Bible The sons of Noah who came out from the vessel were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan. Webster's Bible Translation And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham was the father of Canaan. World English Bible The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan. Young's Literal Translation And the sons of Noah who are going out of the ark are Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is father of Canaan. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Noah's Sons18The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan. 19These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.… Cross References Genesis 5:32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Genesis 9:17 So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth." Genesis 9:25 he said, "Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers." Genesis 10:6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. Treasury of Scripture And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. Shem. Genesis 9:23 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. Genesis 10:1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. 1 Chronicles 1:4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham. Genesis 10:1,6 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood… Canaan. Jump to Previous Ark Canaan Forth Ham Japheth Noah Shem ShipJump to Next Ark Canaan Forth Ham Japheth Noah Shem ShipGenesis 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. (18) Ham is the father of Canaan.--Though human life had thus begun again upon a firmer footing, yet evil and discord were soon to reappear, though in a milder form. No brother sheds a brother's blood, but in the next generation sin breaks forth afresh, and the human family is disunited thereby, the descendants of Canaan taking the place of the Cainites--without indeed, their striking gifts, but nevertheless as a race foremost in trade and commerce. After enumerating the three sons of Noah, we are told: "Of '--more correctly, from--"them was the whole earth overspread," that is, peopled.Verse 18. - And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, who are here again mentioned as the heads of the nations into which the family of man developed, the writer having described the important modifications made upon the law of nature and the covenant of grace, and being now about to proceed with the onward course of human history. The present section, extending to ver. 27, is usually assigned to the Jehovistic author (Tuch,Bleek, Kalisch, Colenso, Kuenen), though by Davidson it is ascribed to a so-called redactor, with the exception of the present clause, which is recognized as the Jehovist's contribution to the story. The ground of this apportionment is the introduction of the name Jehovah in ver. 26 (q.v.), and certain traces throughout the paragraph of the style of writing supposed to be peculiar to the supplementer. And Ham is the father of Canaan. Kena'an, the depressed or low one; either the Lowlander or inhabitant of a tow coast country, as opposed to the loftier regions (Aram); from kana , to be low, depressed, in situation, as of land (Gesenius); or more probably the servile one in spirit (Furst, Murphy, Keil, Lange). The reason for the insertion of this notice here, and of the similar one in ver. 22, was obviously to draw attention to the circumstance, not "that the origin of Israel's ascendancy and of Canaan's degradation dates so far back as the family of the second founder of the human race," as if the writer's standpoint were long subsequent to the conquest (Kalisch), but that, "as Israel was now going to possess the land of Canaan, they might know that now was the time when the curse of Canaan and his posterity should take place" (Wilier). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew The sonsבְנֵי־ (ḇə·nê-) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 1121: A son of Noah נֹ֗חַ (nō·aḥ) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 5146: Noah -- 'rest', patriarch who survived the flood who came out הַיֹּֽצְאִים֙ (hay·yō·ṣə·’îm) Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim of מִן־ (min-) Preposition Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of the ark הַתֵּבָ֔ה (hat·tê·ḇāh) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8392: A box, chest were וַיִּֽהְי֣וּ (way·yih·yū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be Shem, שֵׁ֖ם (šêm) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 8035: Shem -- 'name', oldest son of Noah Ham, וְחָ֣ם (wə·ḥām) Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 2526: Ham -- a son of Noah, also his descendants, also a name for Egyptians and Japheth. וָיָ֑פֶת (wā·yā·p̄eṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3315: Japheth -- a son of Noah And Ham וְחָ֕ם (wə·ḥām) Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 2526: Ham -- a son of Noah, also his descendants, also a name for Egyptians was the father אֲבִ֥י (’ă·ḇî) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 1: Father of Canaan. כְנָֽעַן׃ (ḵə·nā·‘an) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3667: Canaan -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their land West of the Jordan Links Genesis 9:18 NIVGenesis 9:18 NLT Genesis 9:18 ESV Genesis 9:18 NASB Genesis 9:18 KJV Genesis 9:18 BibleApps.com Genesis 9:18 Biblia Paralela Genesis 9:18 Chinese Bible Genesis 9:18 French Bible Genesis 9:18 Catholic Bible OT Law: Genesis 9:18 The sons of Noah who went forth (Gen. 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