Genesis 9:26-28
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
26 He also said:
“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem!
Let Canaan be his slave.
27 May God expand Japheth,[a]
and may he dwell among the tents of Shem;
and let Canaan be his slave.”
28 Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.
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- 9:27 In the Hebrew text there is a play on the words yapt (“expand”) and yepet (“Japheth”).
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