Canaan

The sons of Noach who went out from the ark were Shem, Ham and Yefet. Ham is the father of Kena‘an.

Ham, the father of Kena‘an, saw his father shamefully exposed, went out and told his two brothers.

He said, “Cursed be Kena‘an; he will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

Then he said, “Blessed be Adonai, the God of Shem; Kena‘an will be their servant.

May God enlarge Yefet; he will live in the tents of Shem, but Kena‘an will be their servant.”

The sons of Ham were Kush, Mitzrayim, Put and Kena‘an.

Kena‘an fathered Tzidon his firstborn, Het,

Terach took his son Avram, his son Haran’s son Lot, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Avram’s wife; and they left Ur of the Kasdim to go to the land of Kena‘an. But when they came to Haran, they stayed there.

Avram took his wife Sarai, his brother’s son Lot, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, as well as the people they had acquired in Haran; then they set out for the land of Kena‘an and entered the land of Kena‘an.

Avram lived in the land of Kena'an; and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, setting up his tent near S'dom.

It was after Avram had lived ten years in the land of Kena'an that Sarai Avram's wife took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, and gave her to Avram her husband to be his wife.

I will give you and your descendants after you the land in which you are now foreigners, all the land of Kena'an, as a permanent possession; and I will be their God."

Sarah died in Kiryat-Arba, also known as Hevron, in the land of Kena'an; and Avraham came to mourn Sarah and weep for her.

Then Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Makhpelah, by Mamre, also known as Hevron, in the land of Kena'an

So Yitz'chak called Ya'akov, and, after blessing him, charged him: "You are not to choose a wife from the Hitti women.

Now 'Esav saw that Yitz'chak had blessed Ya'akov and sent him away to Paddan-Aram to choose a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he charged him, "You are not to choose a Kena'ani woman as your wife,"

'Esav also saw that the Kena'ani women did not please Yitz'chak his father.

and carried off all his livestock, along with all the riches he had accumulated, the livestock in his possession which he had acquired in Paddan-Aram, to go to Yitz'chak his father in the land of Kena'an.

Having traveled from Paddan-Aram, Ya'akov arrived safely at the city of Sh'khem, in Kena'an, and set up camp near the city.

Ya'akov and all the people with him arrived at Luz (that is, Beit-El) in the land of Kena'an.

'Esav chose Kena'ani women as his wives: 'Adah the daughter of Eilon the Hitti; Oholivamah the daughter of 'Anah the daughter of Tziv'on the Hivi;

and Oholivamah bore Ye'ush, Ya'lam and Korach. These were the sons of 'Esav born to him in the land of Kena'an.

'Esav took his wives, his sons and daughters, the others in his household, his cattle and other animals and everything else he owned, which he had acquired in the land of Kena'an, and went off to a country distant from his brother Ya'akov.

Ya'akov continued living in the land where his father had lived as a foreigner, the land of Kena'an.

The sons of Isra'el came to buy along with the others that came, since the famine extended to the land of Kena'an.