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Podcast: Wrestling with Theology
Episode: Moment of Meditation: Walking Backwards (Genesis 9:23)
Description: Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness. Genesis 9:23
Once they heard Ham’s report about Noah, his older sons grab something to cover their father’s nakedness. So that they would not see it, they walked backwards into Noah’s tent.
Why do they walk backwards? They are fulfilling the Fourth Commandment. They are honoring their father. They don’t want to bring any further ridicule and sham...