Canaanites

Scripture references

• Genesis 12:6

  Abram passed through the country as far as the holy place at Shechem, the Oak of Moreh. The Canaanites were in the country at the time.

• Genesis 13:7

  Dispute broke out between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and those of Lot. (The Canaanites and Perizzites were living in the country at the time.)

• Genesis 15:21

  the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.'

• Genesis 28:1

  So Isaac summoned Jacob and blessed him; and he gave him this order: 'You are not to marry any of the Canaanite women.

• Genesis 28:6

  in blessing him he had given him this order: 'You are not to choose a wife from the Canaanite women,'

• Genesis 28:8

  Esau then realised how much his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women.

• Genesis 34:30

  Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, 'You have done me an ill turn by bringing me into bad odour with the people of the region, the Canaanites and the Perizzites...'

• Genesis 50:11

  When the Canaanites, the local inhabitants, witnessed the mourning at Goren-ha-Atad, they said, 'This is a solemn act of mourning by the Egyptians,' which is why the place was given the name Abel-Mizraim-it is across the Jordan.