Genesis 15:21

15:21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.” ¹ 

Genesis 10:18

10:18 Arvadites, ²  Zemarites, ³  and Hamathites. ⁴  Eventually the families of the Canaanites were scattered

Genesis 12:6

12:6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree ⁵  of Moreh ⁶  at Shechem. ⁷  (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.) ⁸ 

Genesis 38:2

38:2 There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man ⁹  named Shua. ¹⁰  Judah acquired her as a wife ¹¹  and had marital relations with her. ¹² 

Genesis 46:10

46:10 The sons of Simeon:

Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar,

and Shaul (the son of a Canaanite woman).

Genesis 10:19

10:19 and the borders of Canaan extended ¹³  from Sidon ¹⁴  all the way to ¹⁵  Gerar as far as Gaza, and all the way to ¹⁶  Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Genesis 13:7

13:7 So there were quarrels ¹⁷  between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s herdsmen. ¹⁸  (Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.) ¹⁹ 

Genesis 24:3

24:3 so that I may make you solemnly promise ²⁰  by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire ²¹  a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.

Genesis 24:37

24:37 My master made me swear an oath. He said, ‘You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

Genesis 34:30

34:30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought ruin ²²  on me by making me a foul odor ²³  among the inhabitants of the land – among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I ²⁴  am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!”

Genesis 50:11

50:11 When the Canaanites who lived in the land saw them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a very sad occasion ²⁵  for the Egyptians.” That is why its name was called ²⁶  Abel Mizraim, ²⁷  which is beyond the Jordan.

[15:21]  ¹ tn Each of the names in the list has the Hebrew definite article, which is used here generically for the class of people identified.

[10:18]  ² sn The Arvadites lived in the city Arvad, located on an island near the mainland close to the river El Kebir.

[10:18]  ³ sn The Zemarites lived in the town Sumur, north of Arka.

[10:18]  ⁴ sn The Hamathites lived in Hamath on the Orontes River.

[12:6]  ³ tn Or “terebinth.”

[12:6]  ⁴ sn The Hebrew word Moreh (מוֹרֶה, moreh) means “teacher.” It may well be that the place of this great oak tree was a Canaanite shrine where instruction took place.

[12:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “as far as the place of Shechem, as far as the oak of Moreh.”

[12:6]  ⁶ tn The disjunctive clause gives important information parenthetical in nature – the promised land was occupied by Canaanites.

[38:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “a man, a Canaanite.”

[38:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “and his name was Shua.”

[38:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he took her.”

[38:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he went to her.” This expression is a euphemism for sexual intercourse.

[10:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “were.”

[10:19]  ⁶ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[10:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “as you go.”

[10:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “as you go.”

[13:7]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew term רִיב (riv) means “strife, conflict, quarreling.” In later texts it has the meaning of “legal controversy, dispute.” See B. Gemser, “The rîb – or Controversy – Pattern in Hebrew Mentality,” Wisdom in Israel and in the Ancient Near East [VTSup], 120-37.

[13:7]  ⁷ sn Since the quarreling was between the herdsmen, the dispute was no doubt over water and vegetation for the animals.

[13:7]  ⁸ tn This parenthetical clause, introduced with the vav (ו) disjunctive (translated “now”), again provides critical information. It tells in part why the land cannot sustain these two bedouins, and it also hints of the danger of weakening the family by inner strife.

[24:3]  ⁷ tn Following the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose.

[24:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “because you must not take.”

[34:30]  ⁸ tn The traditional translation is “troubled me” (KJV, ASV), but the verb refers to personal or national disaster and suggests complete ruin (see Josh 7:25, Judg 11:35, Prov 11:17). The remainder of the verse describes the “trouble” Simeon and Levi had caused.

[34:30]  ⁹ tn In the causative stem the Hebrew verb בָּאַשׁ (ba’ash) means “to cause to stink, to have a foul smell.” In the contexts in which it is used it describes foul smells, stenches, or things that are odious. Jacob senses that the people in the land will find this act terribly repulsive. See P. R. Ackroyd, “The Hebrew Root באשׁ,” JTS 2 (1951): 31-36.

[34:30]  ¹⁰ tn Jacob speaks in the first person as the head and representative of the entire family.

[50:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “this is heavy mourning for Egypt.”

[50:11]  ¹⁰ tn The verb has no expressed subject and so it may be translated as passive.

[50:11]  ¹¹ sn The name Abel Mizraim means “the mourning of Egypt.”