Joseph adds that Canaan is cursed with a "vail of darkness" in his Bible translation.

Date
Feb 1831 - Mar 1831
Type
Manuscript
Source
Joseph Smith, Jr.
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

"Old Testament Revision 1," 25, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed October 13, 2021

Scribe/Publisher
Sidney Rigdon, The Joseph Smith Papers
People
Sidney Rigdon, Joseph Smith, Jr.
Audience
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Transcription

unto Noah this is the token of the covenent which I have a established between me and thee for all flesh that shall be upon the earth and the sons of Noah that went forth of the the Ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth and Ham was the father Canaan these were the three sons of Noah and of them was the whole earth overspread and Noah began to till the earth and he was an husband man and he planted a vineyard and he drank of the wine and was drunken and he was uncovered within his tent and Ham the father Canaan saw the nakedness of his father and told his breatheren without and Shem Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid upon both their shoulders and went backward and they saw not their fathers nakedness and Noah awoke from his wine and k[n]ew what his younger son had done unto him, and he said cursed be Canaan a Servent of servents shall he be unto his breatheren and he said blessed be the Lord God of Shem and Canaan shall be his servent and a vail of darkness shall cover him that he shall be known among all men God shall enlarge Japheth and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem and Canaan shall be his serven[t] and Noah lived after the flood three Hundred and fifty years and all the days of Noah were nine Hundred and fifty years and he died

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