Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and from them the whole earth was peopled.
And Noah was the first man to plant a vineyard. And he drank the wine and got drunk and lay naked inside his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s genitals and went out and told his brothers. And Shem and Japheth took a robe and put it over their shoulders and walked in backward and covered their father’s genitals; and they kept looking the other way and didn’t see their father’s genitals.
And when Noah was sober and found out what his youngest son had done to him, he said, “Cursed be Canaan; may he be the lowest of slaves to his brothers.” And he said, “May the Lord bless the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave. May God enlarge Japheth so that he lives in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave.”