Genesis 10:16

10:16 the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,

Genesis 15:21

15:21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”

Exodus 3:17

3:17 and I have promised that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’


sn The Jebusites were the Canaanite inhabitants of ancient Jerusalem.

sn Here Amorites refers to smaller groups of Canaanite inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Palestine, rather than the large waves of Amurru, or western Semites, who migrated to the region.

sn The Girgashites are an otherwise unknown Canaanite tribe, though the name is possibly mentioned in Ugaritic texts (see G. J. Wenham, Genesis [WBC], 1:226).

tn Each of the names in the list has the Hebrew definite article, which is used here generically for the class of people identified.

tn Heb “And I said.”

tn See the note on this list in 3:8.