Canaan (land)

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Map of Canaan during the time of the Patriarchs.

"Abraham Journeying into the Land of Canaan" by Gustave Doré

Canaan is a region that is variously defined by Egyptian and Phoenician as well as Old Testament documentation as an area covering all of Palestine and Syria, sometimes only the land west of the Jordan river and other times only a strip of coastal land from Acre, Israel northward.