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Shem and Japheth

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Shem and Japheth
cover father’s nakedness without looking at him. [O.T.: Genesis 9:23–27]
See : Courtesy


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Shem and Japheth walked backwards into the tent and covered their father, obscuring their vision as much as possible to protect their father's dignity.
Then Noah's wife and Shem and Japheth enter with their families, also "clad in dingy garments" (81).
Mystery is also the ability to not tell the mystery, a holy knowledge of silence, eating words: "When Noah got drunk and took his clothes off, his sons Shem and Japheth walked backward to him, their faces averted, in order to cover his nakedness" (19).
 
 
 
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