Genesis 24:37

And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:

Geneva Bible - Now my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the (s) Canaanites, in whose land I dwell;
(s) The Canaanites were accursed, and therefore the godly could not join with them in marriage.

Genesis 24:3

And I will make thee swear [take an oath] by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou
shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

Geneva Bible - And I will make thee (b) swear by the LORD God of the heaven, and God of the
earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell;
(b) This sheweth that an oath may be required in a lawful cause.

Genesis 13:7

And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle [livestock] and the herdmen of Lot's cattle [livestock]: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

Genesis 12:6

And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem [or Shechem], unto the plain of Moreh"[also called "Alon Morah, the terebinth tree of Moreh]. And the Canaanite [was] then in the land.


A terebinth denotes a large tree (usually oak), and in later books of the Bible they are the groves of tree's where ritual sacrifice take place.