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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 9:23
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Shem and Japheth took a garment, etc.] Who were the two brothers Ham told what he had seen, and who, no doubt, reproved him for his ill behaviour, and then took a garment, a coat of their own, very probably, some large garment fit for the purpose; and laid it upon both their shoulders; one part of it on the right shoulder of the one, and the other on the left shoulder of the other: and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; going backward when they came into the tent, and to the place where their father lay, they threw the garment off from their shoulders over him, and so covered him: and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness: which they purposely shunned, for which reason they went backwards, and their faces were backwards to their father; which showed their modesty, and their filial piety and duty, and thus by their actions reproved Ham, as well as doubtless they did by words.
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