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How do Shem and Japheth cover their father?

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They lay a garment across their shoulders, walk in backward, and cover him with their faces turned away, "and they did not see their father's nakedness" (Genesis 9:23). The verse stages every movement.

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The narrator spends more words on how the brothers didn't look than on what Ham did — the contrast is the scene's whole engine. It's the last story the Bible tells about Noah.

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