Women in the Bible

Canaanite Women

Genesis 28:1, 6, 8; Exodus 34:16

• Genesis 28:1 Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, “You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women.

• Exodus 34:16 …and you will take wives from among their daughters for your sons, and their daughters who prostitute themselves to their gods will make your sons also prostitute themselves to their gods.

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

• “Destruction of the Canaanites” by Charlie Trimm

• “Who Was Living in the Land When Abraham Arrived?” by Dr. Yigal Levin

Books

• “Daughters of the Inhabitants of the Land as Marriage Partners” (pp.200) by Carol Meyers in Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament by Carol Meyers (2001)