Canaanites - Genesis 12:6
In Genesis 12:6, "At that time the Canaanites were still in the land" is helpful information only if
Canaanites were not in the land, and they weren’t after the time of Moses. The Canaanites were a tribe
of people that settled in the land of Canaan well before 2000 BC. They were displaced when Joshua led
the crossing of the Jordan river and conquest for the Promised Land. Records of Canaanite history ended
during that period. As in other cases of possible scribal gloss, this information points to the antiquity
of the document.
Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite
was then in the land. (Gen 12:6)
And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock.
Now the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling then in the land. (Gen 13:7)
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