Bible Strands
Genesis 10:15
And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records Canaan’s lineage within the Table of Nations, a genealogical account tracing the descendants of Noah’s sons following the flood.
The words — The verb יָלַד (ya.Lad) denotes paternal lineage, while בְּכוֹר (be.kho.R) identifies Sidon as the firstborn son.
The thread — The Hittites and Canaanites reappear in Exodus 34:11 as nations to be displaced, while Genesis 15:18 and Numbers 34:2 apply the name geographically to define the promised territory rather than list its inhabitants.
Why it lands — The text establishes the ancestral origins of specific ancient tribes and grounds Israel’s later territorial claims in a recorded lineage.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
Cross-references
- Exodus 34:11 Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Numbers 34:2 “Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:
- Genesis 15:18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
- Genesis 23:3 Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
- 1 Chronicles 1:13 And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
- Genesis 28:3 May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.
- Genesis 49:13 Zebulun shall dwell by the seashore and become a harbor for ships; his border shall extend to Sidon.
- Exodus 3:8 I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Joshua 11:8 and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them down and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. They struck them down, leaving no survivors.
- Joshua 12:8 the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):