Genesis 9:25
Good News Translation
he said, "A curse on Canaan! He will be a slave to his brothers.

New Revised Standard Version
he said, “Cursed be Canaan; lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers.”

Contemporary English Version
he said, "I now put a curse on Canaan! He will be the lowest slave of his brothers.

New American Bible
he said: “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

Cursed.

Genesis 9:22 Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father's nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.

Genesis 3:14 And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

Genesis 4:11 Now therefore cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath opened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother at thy hand.

Genesis 49:7 Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath, because it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.

Deuteronomy 27:16 Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Deuteronomy 28:18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.

Matthew 25:41 Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the devil and his angels.

John 8:34 Jesus answered them: Amen, amen, I say unto you that whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

a servant.

Joshua 9:23,27 Therefore you shall be under a curse, and your race shall always be hewers of wood, and carriers of water, into the house of my God. . . .

Judges 1:28-30 But after Israel was grown strong, he made them tributaries, and would not destroy them. . . .

1 Kings 9:20,21 All the people that were left of the Amorrhites, and Hethites, and Pherezites, and Hevites, and Jebusites, that are not of the children of Israel: . . .

2 Chronicles 8:7,8 All the people that were left of the Hethites, and the Amorrhites, and the Pherezites, and the Hevites, and the Jebusites, that were not of the stock of Israel: . . .

John 8:34 Jesus answered them: Amen, amen, I say unto you that whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

Context
Noah's Shame and Canaan's Curse
24And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him, 25He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
Cross References
Genesis 9:18
And the sons of Noe, who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan.

Genesis 9:24
And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,

Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Joshua 9:23
Therefore you shall be under a curse, and your race shall always be hewers of wood, and carriers of water, into the house of my God.

1 Kings 9:21
Their children, that were left in the land; to wit, such as the children of Israel had not been able to destroy, Solomon made tributary unto this day.

Genesis 9:24
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