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25 he said,

“I now put a curse on Canaan!
He will be the lowest slave
    of his brothers.
26 I ask the Lord my God
to bless Shem
    and make Canaan his slave.
27 I pray God will give Japheth
    more and more[a] land
and let him take over
    the territory of Shem.
May Canaan be his slave.”

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Footnotes

  1. 9.27 more and more: In Hebrew “Japheth” sounds like “more and more.”

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