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  2. Canaan (son of Ham) - Wikipedia

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    The English term Canaan (pronounced / ˈ k eɪ n ən / since c. AD 1500, due to the Great Vowel Shift) comes from the Hebrew כנען ‎ (knʿn), via Greek Χαναάν Khanaan and Latin Canaan. It appears as KUR ki-na-ah-na in the Amarna letters (14th century BC), and knʿn is found on coins from Phoenicia in the last half of the 1st millennium.

  3. Curses of Cain and Ham and the Church of Jesus Christ of ...

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    There is no explicit connection from the antediluvian people of Canaan to Cain's descendants, the Canaanites descended from Ham's son Canaan or modern Black people. [9]: 41–42 However, the Book of Moses identifies both Cain's descendants and the people of Canaan as black and cursed, and they were frequently used interchangeably.

  4. Cain - Wikipedia

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    Cain [a] is a biblical figure ... Interpretations extend Cain's curse to his descendants, ... Because of this, Noah cursed Ham's son, Canaan to be "servants of servants".

  5. Canaan - Wikipedia

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    Canaan and the Canaanites are mentioned some 160 times in the Hebrew Bible, mostly in the Torah and the books of Joshua and Judges. [101] They descended from Canaan, who was the son of Ham and the grandson of Noah. Canaan was cursed with perpetual slavery because his father Ham had "looked upon" the drunk and naked Noah. The expression "look ...

  6. Seven Nations (Bible) - Wikipedia

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    The seven nations are all descendants of Canaan, son of Ham and grandson of Noah, from whom they derive their collective name Canaanites. When enumerated separately, one of the seven nations is called Canaanites, while the others are called the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Jebusites and the Perizzites. [3]

  7. Cainites - Wikipedia

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    The Cainites or Cainians (Ancient Greek: Καϊνοί, Kainoi, and Καϊανοί, Kaianoi) [1] were a Gnostic and antinomian sect known to venerate Cain as the first victim of the Demiurge, the deity of the Old Testament, who was identified by many groups of Gnostics as evil. The sect was relatively small.

  8. Nephilim - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Others view them as descendants of Seth and Cain. [4] [5] [6] This reference to them is in Genesis 6:1–4, but the passage is ambiguous and the identity of the Nephilim is disputed. [7] [8] According to Numbers 13:33, ten of the Twelve Spies report the existence of Nephilim in Canaan prior to its conquest by the Israelites. [9] [10]

  9. Genealogies of Genesis - Wikipedia

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    Genesis names three children of Adam and Eve, Cain, Abel and Seth. A genealogy tracing the descendants of Cain is given in Genesis 4, while the line from Seth down to Noah appears in Genesis 5. Scholars have noted similarities between these descents: most of the names in each are variants of those in the other, though their order differs, with ...