Genesis 9:25
he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Cursed
- Genesis 9:22; Genesis 3:14; Genesis 4:11; Genesis 49:7; Deuteronomy 27:16; Deuteronomy 28:18; Matthew 25:41; John 8:34
- a servant
- The devoted nations, which God destroyed before Israel, were descended from Canaan: and so were the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, who were at length subjugated with dreadful destruction by the Greeks and Romans. The Africans, who have been bought and sold like beasts, were also his posterity.
- Joshua 9:23, 27; Judges 1:28–30; 1 Kings 9:20, 21; 2 Chronicles 8:7, 8; John 8:34