Places
Canaan in Genesis 13
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This place shows up in Genesis 13:7: “There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real place in a real place.
Genesis 13:7
“There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.”
What kids can learn
When you hear canaan in Genesis, remember the sentence around it. God put this place in the story on purpose.
Read Genesis 13:7 again tomorrow and ask what the place is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Genesis 13:7
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
TherewasstrifebetweentheherdsmenoflivestockandtheherdsmenofLot’slivestock.TheCanaanitesandthelivedinthelandatthat