New International Reader's Version

Genesis 9:19-24 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

19. The people who were scattered over the earth came from Noah's three sons.

20. Noah was a man who worked the ground. He decided to plant a vineyard.

21. He drank some of its wine. It made him drunk. Then he lay down inside his tent without any clothes on.

22. Ham saw his father's naked body. Ham was the father of Canaan. Ham went outside and told his two brothers.

23. But Shem and Japheth took a piece of clothing. They laid it across their shoulders. Then they walked backward into the tent. They covered their father's body. They turned their faces away. They didn't want to see their father's naked body.

24. Then Noah woke up from his sleep that was caused by the wine. He found out what his youngest son had done to him.