And Canaan was the father of Zidon, his oldest son, and Heth,
Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:
The sons of Ham: Cush and Egypt, Put and Canaan.
And having put to destruction seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them the land for their heritage for about four hundred and fifty years.
Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food.
Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo in the land of Moab opposite Jericho; there you may see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel for their heritage:
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 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 I made an agreement with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their wanderings.
Biting off the highest of its young branches, he took it to the land of Canaan, and put it in a town of traders.
And Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth,
And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
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.
Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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