And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.
Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.
And he said, praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let canaan be his servant.
May God make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.
And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
And canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth,
And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; after that the families of the Canaanites went far and wide in all directions;
And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.
And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.
And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land.
And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land.
Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.
And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.
And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.
And Sarah's death took place in Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan: and Abraham went into his house, weeping and sorrowing for Sarah.
Then Abraham put Sarah his wife to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, that is, hebron in the land of Canaan.
And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;
And my master made me take an oath, saying, Do not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;
Then Isaac sent for Jacob, and blessing him, said, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;
So when esau saw that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing, and sent him away to Paddan-aram to get a wife for himself there, blessing him and saying to him, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;
It was clear to Esau that his father had no love for the women of Canaan,
And sending on before him all his cattle and his property which he had got together in Paddan-aram, he made ready to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
So Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and put up his tents near the town.
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.
And Jacob came to Luz in the land of canaan (which is the same as Beth-el), he and all his people.
Esau's wives were women of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,
Oholibamah was the mother of Jeush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the sons of Esau, whose birth took place in the land of Canaan.
Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the people of his house, and his beasts and his cattle and all his goods which he had got together in the land of Canaan, and went into the land of Seir, away from his brother Jacob.
Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan.
And there he saw the daughter of a certain man of canaan named Shua, and took her as his wife.
And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan.
And when Joseph saw his brothers, it was clear to him who they were, but he made himself strange to them, and talking roughly to them, said, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to get food.
Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead.
So when they came to Jacob their father, in the land of Canaan, they gave him an account of all their experiences, saying,
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is dead, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.
See, the money which was in the mouth of our bags we gave back to you when we came again from Canaan: how then might we take silver or gold from your lord's house?
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Put your goods on your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan;
So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to their father Jacob.
And they took their cattle and all the goods which they had got in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, even Jacob and all his seed:
And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan;
And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah: but Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's people, I will go and give the news to Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's people, from the land of Canaan, have come to me;
Then Joseph went to Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers with their flocks and their herds and all they have, are come from Canaan, and are now in the land of Goshen.
And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to make a living in this land, because we have no grass for our flocks in the land of Canaan; so now let your servants make a place for themselves in the land of Goshen.
Now there was no food to be had in all the land, so that all Egypt and canaan were wasted from need of food.
And all the money in Egypt and in the land of Canaan which had been given for grain, came into the hands of Joseph: and he put it in Pharaoh's house.
And when all the money in Egypt and Canaan was gone, the egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread; would you have us come to destruction before your eyes? for we have no more money.
And Jacob said to Joseph, God, the ruler of all, came to me in a vision at Luz in the land of Canaan, and gave me his blessing,
In the rock in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham got from Ephron the Hittite, to be his resting-place.
My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.
And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians: so the place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan.
For they took him into the land of canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the hittite at Mamre.
And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
And I have said, I will take you up out of the sorrows of Egypt into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, into a land flowing with milk and honey.
And I made an agreement with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their wanderings.
And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan: these are the families of Simeon.
And it will be that, when the Lord takes you into the land of the Canaanite and the hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, the land which he made an oath to your fathers that he would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you will do this act of worship in this month.
And when the Lord takes you into the land of Canaan, as he made his oath to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,
The chiefs of edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of canaan became like water.
And the children of Israel had manna for their food for forty years, till they came to a land with people in it, till they came to the edge of the land of Canaan.
And my angel will go before you, guiding you into the land of the Amorite and the hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, and they will be cut off by my hand.
I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and the Hittite before your face.
And I will send an angel before you, driving out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite:
Take care to do the orders which I give you today; I will send out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
When you have come into the land of canaan which I will give you for your heritage, if I put the leper's disease on a house in the land of your heritage,
You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules.
I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, that I might be your God.
Send men to get knowledge about the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from every tribe of their fathers you are to send a man, every one a chief among them.
So Moses sent them to have a look at the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up into the South and into the hill-country;
And the Amalekites are in the South; and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill-country; and the Canaanites by the sea and by the side of Jordan.
Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites are in the valley; tomorrow, turning round, go into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea.
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