Canaan

Scripture references

• Genesis 11:31

  Terah took his son Abram ... and made them leave Ur of the Chaldaeans to go to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 12:5

  They set off for the land of Canaan, and arrived there.

• Genesis 13:12

  Abram settled in the land of Canaan; Lot settled among the cities of the plain...

• Genesis 17:8

  I shall give the country where you are now immigrants, the entire land of Canaan, to own in perpetuity.

• Genesis 23:2

  She died ... in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 31:18

  to go to his father Isaac in Canaan.

• Genesis 36:6

  Esau took his wives, his sons and daughters, all the members of his household, his livestock, all his cattle and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan and left for Seir, away from his brother Jacob.

• Genesis 37:1

  But Jacob settled in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 38:2

  There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite called Shua. He made her his wife and slept with her.

• Genesis 40:15

  I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews in the first place, and even here I have done nothing to warrant being put in the dungeon.'

• Genesis 43:1

  But the famine in the country grew worse,

• Genesis 43:11

  Then their father Israel said to them, 'If it must be so, then do this: take some of the country's best products in your baggage and take them to the man as a gift: some balsam, some honey, gum tragacanth, resin, pistachio nuts and almonds.

• Genesis 44:8

  Look, we brought you back the money we found in the mouths of our sacks, all the way from Canaan. Are we likely to have stolen silver or gold from your master's house?

• Genesis 45:25

  And so they left Egypt. When they reached their father Jacob in Canaan,

• Genesis 46:6

  Taking their livestock and all that they had acquired in Canaan, they arrived in Egypt -- Jacob and all his offspring.

• Genesis 47:4

  They went on to tell Pharaoh, 'We have come to stay in this country for the time being, since there is no pasturage for your servants' flocks, Canaan being stricken with famine. So now please allow your servants to settle in the region of Goshen.'

• Genesis 47:13

  And on all the earth around there was now no food anywhere, for the famine had grown very severe, and Egypt and Canaan were both weak with hunger.

• Genesis 47:14

  Joseph accumulated all the money to be found in Egypt and Canaan, in exchange for the supplies being handed out, and put the money in Pharaoh's palace.

• Genesis 48:3

  'El Shaddai appeared to me at Luz in Canaan,' Jacob told Joseph, 'and he blessed me,

• Genesis 48:7

  'When I was on my way from Paddan, to my sorrow death took your mother Rachel from me in Canaan, on the journey while only a short distance from Ephrath. I buried her there on the road to Ephrath -- now Bethlehem.'

• Genesis 49:30

  in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, in Canaan, which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.

• Genesis 50:5

  "My father put me under oath, saying: I am about to die. In the tomb which I dug for myself in Canaan, that is where you are to bury me. So may I have leave to go up and bury my father, and then come back?" '

• Genesis 50:13

  His sons carried him to Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.