OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 9:23

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Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.

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Verse 23. Neither ought we to be so quick-sighted in discovering the faults of any: which we often represent as real, when they are only apparent. Bible.

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