Genesis 9:27
Good News Translation
May God cause Japheth to increase! May his descendants live with the people of Shem! Canaan will be the slave of Japheth."

New Revised Standard Version
May God make space for Japheth, and let him live in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his slave.”

Contemporary English Version
I pray God will give Japheth more and more land and let him take over the territory of Shem. May Canaan be his slave."

New American Bible
May God expand Japheth, and may he dwell among the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his slave.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant.

enlarge.

he shall dwell.

dwell.

Isaiah 11:10 In that day the root of Jesse, who standeth for an ensign of the people, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his sepulchre shall be glorious.

Hosea 2:14 Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will lead her into the wilderness: and I will speak to her heart.

Malachi 1:11 For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean oblation: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts.

Acts 17:14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul, to go unto the sea: but Silas and Timothy remained there.

Romans 11:12 Now if the offence of them be the riches of the world and the diminution of them the riches of the Gentiles: how much more the fulness of them?

Romans 15:12 And again, Isaias saith: There shall be a root of Jesse; and he that shall rise up to rule the Gentiles, in him the Gentiles shall hope.

Ephesians 2:13,14,19 But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. . . .

Ephesians 3:6,13 That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body: and copartners of his promise in Christ Jesus, by the gospel . . .

Hebrews 11:9,10 By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise. . . .

Context
Shem's Blessing and Noah's Death
26And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant. 27May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant.28And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.…
Cross References
Genesis 9:28
And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

Genesis 10:2
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Thubal, and Mosoch, and Thiras.

Genesis 27:29
And let peoples serve thee, and tribes worship thee: be thou lord of thy brethren, and let thy mother's children bow down before thee. Cursed be he that curseth thee: and let him that blesseth thee be filled with blessings.

Isaiah 66:19
And I will set a sign among them, and I will send of them that shall be saved, to the Gentiles into the sea, into Africa, and Lydia them that draw the bow: into Italy, and Greece, to the islands afar off, to them that have not heard of me, and have not seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory to the Gentiles:

Genesis 9:26
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