Canaan (patriarch)

See also: Canaan

Canaan (in Hebrew: כְּנַעַן / כְּנָעַן ) is a character of the Genèse in the Bible.

He is the subject of the episode brought back in Genèse 9,22-27:

22. Cham, father of Canaan, saw the nudity of his/her father and inform his two brothers with-outside the . 23. But Sem and Japhet took the coat, reflect it both on their shoulder and, going to move back, covered the nudity of their father; their faces were turned behind and they do not transfer the nudity of their father . 24 When Noah awoke of his intoxication, he learned what his/her youngest son had done to him . 25 And he says: Cursed is Canaan! How it is for his brothers the last of the slaves! 26. It also says: Blessed either YHWH, God of Sem, and that Canaan or its slave! 27 That Elohim puts Japhet at the broad one, that he lives in the tents of Sem, and that Canaan is its slave!

One will have noticed that it is the father, Cham, which makes the impudicity, whereas it is the son, Canaan, which is cursed by Noah. (See Curse of Cham).

Canaan, which will give its name to the Pays of Canaan, has three brothers ( Genèse 10,6): Koush, Misraïm and respective Pout, éponymes of the Ethiopia, the Egypt and the Somalia. It has ten wire ( Genèse 10,15-18), enumerated below.

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