{And the sons of Noah who came out of the Ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. These three are the sons of Noah: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth. And Noah, a husbandman, began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard. And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent. Which when Ham the father of Canaan had seen, to wit, that his father's nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without. But Shem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father — and their f[aces were turned away]…}

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{And the sons of Noah who came out of the Ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. These three are the sons of Noah: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth. And Noah, a husbandman, began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard. And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent. Which when Ham the father of Canaan had seen, to wit, that his father's nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without. But Shem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father — and their f[aces were turned away]…}¹

Erant ergo filii Noë qui egressi sunt de Arca, Sem, Cham et Iaphet: porro Cham ipse est pater Chanaan. Tres isti filii sunt Noë, et ab his disseminatum est omne genus hominum super universam terram. Caepit Noë vir agricola exercere terram, et plantavit vineam: Bibensque vinum inebriatus est, et nudatus iacuit in tabernaculo suo. Quod cum vidisset Cham pater Chanaan, verenda scilicet patris sui esse nudata, nunciavit duobus fratribus suis foras. At vero Sem et Iaphet pallium imposuerunt humeris suis, et incedentes retrorsum, operuerunt verenda patris sui, fa[ciesque eorum aversae erant]…

Translator’s notes

Gen 9:18–23 (Noah's sons; his vineyard, drunkenness, and Ham's sin). Margins: vv. 18–23. Continues on p. 314. ↩