Places
Canaan in Genesis 24
KAY-nun
This place shows up in Genesis 24:3: “I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real place in a real place.
Genesis 24:3
“I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.”
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 24:3 again tomorrow and ask what the place is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Genesis 24:3
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
IwillmakeyouswearbyYahweh,theGodofheavenandtheGodoftheearth,youshallnotawifeformysonofthedaughtersoftheCanaanites,amongIlive.