Canaan

All 35 verses in Genesis, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Genesis

• Genesis 11:31

  And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.

• Genesis 12:5

  And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

• Genesis 13:12

  Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

• Genesis 16:3

  So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.

• Genesis 17:8

  And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”

• Genesis 23:2

  She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.

• Genesis 23:19

  After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 31:18

  and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.

• Genesis 33:18

  After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.

• Genesis 35:6

  So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 36:5

  and Oholibamah gave birth to Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 36:6

  Later, Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the people of his household, along with his livestock, all his other animals, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan, and he moved to a land far away from his brother Jacob.

• Genesis 37:1

  Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 42:5

  So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 42:7

  And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”

• Genesis 42:13

  But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”

• Genesis 42:29

  When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they described to him all that had happened to them:

• Genesis 42:32

  We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’

• Genesis 44:8

  We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

• Genesis 45:17

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do as follows: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 45:25

  So the brothers went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 46:6

  They also took the livestock and possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt.

• Genesis 46:10

  The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

• Genesis 46:12

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

• Genesis 46:31

  Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and inform Pharaoh: ‘My brothers and my father’s household from the land of Canaan have come to me.

• Genesis 47:1

  So Joseph went and told Pharaoh: “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”

• Genesis 47:4

  Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.”

• Genesis 47:13

  There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.

• Genesis 47:14

  Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought it into Pharaoh’s palace.

• Genesis 47:15

  When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our funds have run out!”

• Genesis 48:3

  Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed me

• Genesis 48:7

  Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).

• Genesis 49:30

  The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

• Genesis 50:5

  my father made me swear an oath when he said, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.”

• Genesis 50:13

  They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

Events the dataset sets at Canaan. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

1. c. 1921 BC
   Abraham enters CanaanGenesis 11:31–12:9
2. c. 1920 BC
   Abraham and Lot SeparateGenesis 13:1–18
3. c. 1418 BC
   Subjugation by Cushan-rishathaimJudges 3:7–8
4. c. 1410 BC
   Deliverance by OthnielJudges 2:16–3:11
5. c. 1378 BC
   Subjugation by EglonJudges 3:12–14
6. c. 1360 BC
   Deliverance by EhudJudges 3:15–30
7. c. 1298 BC
   Subjugation by JabinJudges 4:1–3
8. c. 1278 BC
   Deliverance by Barak And DeborahJudges 4:4–5:31
9. c. 1258 BC
   Subjugation by MidianJudges 6:1–10
10. c. 1251 BC
    Deliverance by GideonJudges 6:11–8:28
11. c. 1218 BC
    Usurpation by AbimelechJudges 8:29–9:57
12. c. 1215 BC
    Judgeship of TolaJudges 10:1–2

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.