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Canaan
Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
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Ca´naan, son of Ham and grandson of Noah. The transgression of his father Ham (), to which some suppose Canaan to have been in some way a party, gave occasion to Noah to pronounce that doom on the descendants of Canaan which was, perhaps, at that moment made known to him by one of those extemporaneous inspirations with which the patriarchal fathers appear in other instances to have been favored.
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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Canaan'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​c/canaan.html.
Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Canaan'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​c/canaan.html.