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The Welcome of Strangers in the Land of Canaan

In the ancient epoch, when the promises of the Almighty were still echoing across the barren plains and fertile valleys, and the descendants of Abraham began to take root in the land of Canaan, the welcoming of strangers was not merely a societal custom, but a sacred covenant, woven into the very fabric of their identity. For they, too, had once be...

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Lodging by the Well: Where Journeys Paused

And it came to pass in the days when men journeyed by foot and by beast of burden, that the well was as a beacon in the wilderness—a place of rest, of gathering, and of divine encounter. For along the dusty paths and in the heat of the noonday sun, the wells of the land became lodgings of a kind, where the weary paused and the thirsty were made gla...

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Canaan Scripture - Genesis 46:31

And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which [were] in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;...

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Canaan Scripture - Genesis 47:4

They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine [is] sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen....

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Canaan Scripture - Numbers 35:14

Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, [which] shall be cities of refuge....

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Canaan Scripture - Joshua 22:32

And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again....

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Canaan Scripture - Joshua 22:9

And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which [is] in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses....

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Canaan Scripture - Genesis 46:12

And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul....

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Canaan in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(Ca'nan) (low, flat). 1. The fourth son of Ham, Ge 10:6; 1Ch 1:8 the progenitor of the Phoenicians [ZIDON], and of the various nations who before the Israelite conquest people the seacoast of Israel, and generally the while of the country westward of the Jordan. Ge 10:13; 1Ch 1:13 (B.C. 2347.) 2. The name "Canaan" is sometimes employed for t...

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Canaan Scripture - Genesis 47:13

And [there was] no bread in all the land; for the famine [was] very sore, so that the land of Egypt and [all] the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine....

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