Genesis 17:8

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I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."

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Canaan was the land along the eastern Mediterranean, roughly corresponding to modern Israel, the Palestinian territories, and parts of Lebanon and Jordan. In this promise to Abraham, God identifies Canaan as the enduring inheritance of his descendants, underscoring the covenant’s concrete historical and territorial character.

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Genesis 17:8 mentions Canaan.