I believe that it is important to add here that when I was first doing this essay I had access to a document from California State University linked by http://economics.csusb.edu/facultystaff/nilsson/personal/capitalism%20text/04-different%20economic%20systems.pdf. I no longer have the document and so I do not know to what degree my words might be reflected in it. In addition, I wrote this article (actually the whole series of articles) many years ago (I might have started around 2013-2014) when it was intended for close friends and family. In converting it to a webpage I have discovered that I did not pay very close attention to time-stamping webpages. I will make an effort to update the references but If I miss some I apologise profusely.

This subject is being dealt with as a component of my series on The Princes, the Priests and the Prophets hence the preface of PPP. The link here is provided to connect with the main article.

Kinship production is recognised as having the following traits:

God's System

There is an appealing image of Abraham's journey at https://www.bible-history.com/maps/6-abrahams-journeys.html which is a page from the Bible History Online site devoted to maps relating to the Bible.

God always begins with family, not race. Adam and Eve were one family. God could have created variously coloured people in pairs. When He began again He chose one family, Noah's. Kinship production is about above all else kin, family. God has always been about family. We are all created as sons of God.

Israel began with one family. The foundations of Israel is in Ur. Ur of the Chaldees might well have been in close proximity to Babylon/Babel. The story of Israel starts with Terah as recorded in Genesis 11:26-28. Terah's father was Nahor, son of Serug, descendant of Shem (Genesis 11:10). The story comes right after the scattering by God so I believe that it shows some of how Shem was dispersed. Terah and his family were polytheistic.

We keep drifting back into it but God tells us to steer clear.

We do not know how many wives Terah had but he had three sons: Abram, Haran, and Nahor as well as a daughter Sarai who married her brother Abram (Abraham). They lived in Ur of the Chaldees. At some point the family left to go to Canaan but got stuck in Haran, maybe because Abrams father Terah became ill (Genesis 11:31).

Mesopotamia is separated from the coast by a mountain range and a river so they had to go up north and west to Haran so that they could cross the river and get pass the mountains. Abram had had an encounter with God, who directed him to take the entire family, leave Ur, and move to the land of Canaan (Acts 7:2-4).

Terah was still in charge of the family so Abram went subject to him (Genesis 11:31) but Terah died along the way at the age of 205. God then told Abram to continue to Canaan where his descendants spent 215 years followed by another 215 in Egypt. Consequently it took 430 years for the God's system to be established as a national system  emergence of the Nation of Israel, and it has continued in the Church established by God. It is a system based on family and hence kinship production. Our approach to everything, work, play, whatever should be the same.

A smart alec wanted to know who was his neighbour so Christ gave him a story about a group of people that they all hated, a Samaritan. The story is found in Luke 10:25-37. It is called the story of the Good Samaritan. The reason for most of the evils of this world is because we invent reasons to not treat others as family. We exploit and murder and oppress but except for a few of us, and a few deranged races, we would never do that to family.

The Curse of Canaan

The curse of Canaan is very important because it is foundational as an example of how God's system is to be perpetuated. Bear in mind that I am using kinship production as basically equivalent to God's system and hence the way that God accepts that society should spread. There should therefore be some lessons in the life and times of Noah. The father and mother is to be respected as expressed in the fifth commandment (Exodus 20:12). That is a command of God and is subordinated to the second commandment which pronounces . . . for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me (Exodus 20:5 [KJV]). The posture of white supremacists is that the curse of Canaan is a perpetual curse that condemns black people as sons of Ham. So we have to deal with two matters #1.. was it a perpetual curse? And #2.. Did God use Noah's inspired, but seemingly petty and vindictive words as a basis for something greater?

The first question is easily answered from the commandments. If God does punish the children because of their parents He is expected to punish all of them and He does it unto the fourth generation, not perpetually. So what about the case where one grandchild is singled out to bear the burden of all the others? Does that child not deserve some manner of compensation? What about the second part of the Second Commandment which states . . . And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments? Noah apparently served God, so did Canaan not deserve mercy? I understand thousands to mean thousands of generations based on the context.

I first got the idea of what I am addressing when I was reading this article:

https://holylandphotos.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/mom-genesis-927-god-promises-to-dwell-in-the-tents-shem/ at HolyLandPhotos' Blog, MoM Genesis 9:27 God Promises to dwell in the Tents Shem - Posted on August 25, 2014. This lead to my own idea that God is focusing on reversing the sin of Eden through Shem and not on condemning Canaan. Some of my supporting research comes from reading http://12tribehistory.com/people-of-the-middle-east-where-are-they-today/ on the website who is America - Setting History Straight, although I found some of its claims to be ambitious. The verse containing the curse actually reads:  And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. [26] And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. [27] God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant, Genesis 9:25-27 [KJV].

I think that difficult scriptures concerning people tend to be interpreted in light of how people see their characters. For me the common interpretation makes God seem petty and small minded and Noah vindictive and unjust. I cannot accept that. I see God as larger than life and Noah exceptional (Ezekiel 14:1,20). There is a completely different understanding depending on who we interpret as the person of him in Genesis 9:25-27 [KJV] quoted above. It is identical to the situation in Hebrews 2 where some people (like me) believe that Him refers to Christ as to me is clearly pointed out in chapters 1, 3 and 4, while some other people consider Him to be mankind and it completely changes the understanding of the passage. Most people assume that him in Genesis 9:25-27 refers to Japeth but to me it is not the most logical interpretation of the Hebrew. The NIV and some other translations even insert an additional Japheth into the text because they recognise that it should be there. I now submit to you how I believe that this verse is to be understood: Genesis 9:25-27 [my interpretive rendering based on the KJV], And he, Noah, said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. [26] And he, Noah, said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant, i.e. belong to the LORD God of Shem. [27] God shall enlarge Japheth, and he, God, shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his, i.e. God's, servant. I think that this presents a more accurate picture of the character of God and accounts for what has happened in history. Reading from verse 21 the issue was a lack of Godly initiative and gives a spiritual warning to all humanity. Ham saw the problem and did nothing to correct it but spread gossip instead, capitalizing on the misfortune of his father. It seems to me that he did not see God in the matter at all. It was just a big joke. Shem has spiritual insight. He seems to have arranged to sort out the matter out in a way pleasing to God and got Japheth to assist. Noah decides that if you do not have the attitude to correct mistakes, but instead make them worse by telling tales, then you will have to do it subject to someone who will take responsibility, namely Shem. This is before the explicit command of the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20, but it does not absolve us of seeing that dishonouring parents is tantamount to dishonouring God. If Noah did the same thing as Ham, i.e. found a way in which his son was exposed and did not correct the mistake of Ham but just found a method to broadcast it, then he is just as bad and is dishonouring God's gift (Psalm 127). I will therefore assume that Noah sought to minimise the damage by exposing only one grandchild and that grandchild was eventually compensated by God. If on the other hand, the common understanding of victimising Canaan was Noah's intention, then God still found a way to honour what was literally said but with love, however I think that Noah was a more loving person. The Bible does not say that Ham went into the tent at all, so the door might have been left opened. Although and told his two brethren without could suggest that Ham was in the tent, I think that it is used to inform us that nobody but Noah was in the tent, which might be like his bedroom. When Noah went to sleep it could have been night but in the light of day you could see into the tent through the doorway. Both God and Noah were concerned for the children. From verse 25 Canaan will be cursed because of his father but will approach God through Shem and serve his brothers in that capacity. He will serve God on behalf of his brothers through God's servant Shem, making him a servant of servants. From verse 26, Canaan will serve the God of Shem. From verse 27 God will dwell in the tents of Shem and Canaan will assist Shem. Japheth will be enlarged independently. Shem produced a descendant called Eber the forefather of all Hebrews. Terah was a descendant of Eber and produced Abraham (Genesis 11:1027). The Tabernacle came to man through a descendant of Abraham and God dwelled in the tents of Israel. Canaan will assist God through Shem who will be given a direct access to God. It is a promise to redeem Ham, a representative of all rebellious men, through Shem and Canaan, by a miracle that will change our rebellious hearts. Ham was the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan. God showed Noah that He would use Canaan to point Ham back to Him but it would cost Canaan. We first see this in Israel being established to be a light to the world at the expense of Canaan. In my opinion it could also be the singular event of the crucifixion. Noah died seeing God's redemption of his children through a messiah from Shem aided by Canaan. God is concerned about people serving Him not serving men. God directed events leading up to the Exodus from this promise. We know that Christ and David had Canaanite blood through Rahab (Matthew 1:5) but it goes further.

At the Chucifixion Christ was assisted by Simon of Cyrene. Wikipedia @2018-12-30 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_of_Cyrene says under the caption Simon of Cyrene:

Cyrene was located in northern Africa in eastern Libya. A Greek city in the province of Cyrenaica, it had a Jewish community where 100,000 Judean Jews had been forced to settle during the reign of Ptolemy Soter (323-285 BC) and was an early center of Christianity.

Simon was apparently a Jew but the question remains whether he was a native of Africa or an immigrant to Africa. Mark says

So everybody knew his children implying that they were well known among the Christian community. There is a Simon in the Bible who was an apostle and a Canaanite. He is called the Canaanite (Matthew 10:4; Mark 3:18) and Zelotes or the Zealot (Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13). This gives him a background as an activists which preceded his conversion.  Zealots were a political Jewish movement which sought to incite the people of Judea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the Holy Land by force. As an apostle then you would tend to know his children. If these two are the same then the person that carried the cross was most likely a descendant of Canaan and I am of the view that they were one and the same. On 2018-12-30 Wikipedia said at captioned Simon the Zealot: . . .the theologian and Doctor of the Church, Saint Jerome, does not include him in De viris illustribus written between 392-393 AD, suggesting to me that he is considered irrelevant by Catholic. This fuels my conviction that he is significant and that he is a fulfilment of Noah's prophecy.

The people of the kingdoms listed as conquered to make way for the land of Israel were descendants of Canaan (Exodus 3:8). All of them were children of Canaan.

They were however not all of the Canaanites, and then there are the Philistines who apparently had displaced some of those who originally occupied the land but it was still known as the land of Canaan. The most obvious thing to note is that not all of Canaan's descendants were called Canaanites because the scripture says Canaanite and, then It goes on to list several other people who were descendants of Canaan. This scripture is often perverted by racists.

Hittites

Consider for example the Hitties as shown in the map on the left from wikipedia . According to Genesis 10, they were the descendants of Heth, son of Canaan, who in turn was the son of Ham, son of Noah (Genesis 10: 1-6). They came from Anatolia (a.k.a Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey). They had an empire that spread down to Egypt and across to Babylon. Did all that become Israel? Were all Canaanites in Canaan? Was the home base of the Hittites even in Canaan? The objective was not to kill all Canaanites but to establish a nation in the middle of them. In that case they would be the first to see the benefit of God's way and change. This did happen to some degree. Hittites and Egyptians had the same racial roots (the theory of the five races is actually nonsense). As an aside when Tutankhamun died suddenly in 1,327 BC, his widow (queen Ankhsenamun) wrote to Suppiluliuma I the Hittite king, asking him to send her one of his sons to marry. It never came to be. King Suppiluliuma I had become king about 1344 BC and went on to establish the New Kingdom (1,400-1,200 BC), also known as the Hittite Empire. When God said

It was no namby-pamby promise. It was formerly taught that the Hittites were illiterate but that is untrue http://www.ancientscripts.com/hittite.html. The last king of the Hittite Empire was Suppiluliuma II. By then the Assyrians were becoming a mighty force. They along with repeated raids by the Sea Peoples and the Kaska tribe, lead to the demise of the empire. Hattusa their capital, was sacked by the Kaskas in 1,190 BC and burned. Solomon later made some of them tributary (II Chronicles 8:7-8).

By the time of the death of Ahab they had gained their independence and Ben-Hadad thought that he had hired them. Ben-Hadad II invaded Israel and because of the siege the people of Samaria were starving to death. Due to an appeal to Elisha, the Lord caused the Aramean army to flee (II Kings 7:6).

Arameans and Syrians are the same people in the Bible. They controlled the land North and East of Canaan. Aram is a son of Shem, and the father of Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash or Meshech [Genesis 10:21-23, I Chronicles 1:17]. They are actually related to Abraham and Laban [Genesis 31:10, Deuteronomy 26:5] but you find these Shemites fighting against Israel while Hittites (Canaanites) were supporting Israel.

Hittites were eventually absorbed into the Assyrian empire during the ninth century BC but that is not the final word on them. We are going to talk later about Hessians but notice this comment from http://12tribehistory.com/people-of-the-middle-east-where-are-they-today/.

The earliest known inhabitants of the country [Germany] were the Chatti, who lived here during the first century a.d. Alike both in race and language, says Walther Schultze, the Chatti and the Hessi are identical (Hesse, vol. 13). Furthermore, the Old High German spelling of Hesse was Hatti!

They were the Hessians in history. The Hessians were known for the military skill and worked as Mercenaries. . .

There were difficulties encountered in accessing that site when I last tried but similar information is found on Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatti.

Creation wikihttps://creationwiki.org/Heth identifies Chatti as Hittites. The evidence there supports that Hessians were the original people of Germany but are now a minority and are not of the same stock as the rest of Germany. Hessians were mixed up with the British and Americans in their wars and we will get to them later. The sioux indians are also identified as Chatti.

Of the Amorites wikipedia said @2018-12-03, that they ...were an ancient Semitic-speaking people from Syria who also occupied large parts of southern Mesopotamia from the 21st century BC to the end of the 17th century BC, where they established several prominent city states in existing locations, notably Babylon.... Israel did not include Mesopotamia so they were not instructed to kill all Amorites. In addition racists do not add one key attribute of Amorites. Some were blue-eyed, fair-skinned Canaanites! These are Caucasian characteristics. They were represented on the Egyptian monuments with fair skin, light hair, blue eyes, curved or hooked noses and short pointed beards. This description does not match king Nabu nor king Hammurabi because they had long woolly beards, so I am inclined to believe than not all Hittites fitted that description.

You can read a bit on Amorites here https://www.ancient.eu/amorite/ (I think that it now redirects to the World History Enclyclopaedia page https://www.worldhistory.org/amorite/) and their link to Hammurabi, but there is much more as at the jewishencyclopedia.com page http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1422-amorites. There was a wordpress site here https://yemitom.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/physical-appearance-of-the-amorites-of-genesis-1516/ presenting evidence of blue-eyes and fair skin (last I checked it had become a private site), giving further evidence to my proposition that colour is not distinctive of any son of Noah. The same people that claim that the dark skin of Egyptians in their paintings means nothing claim that the light skin of Amorites on Egyptian paintings mean that they were white-race/Caucasian. This site Ancient Origins on page https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/fierce-amorites-and-first-king-babylonian-empire-003269 was more comprehensive. People try to say that Amorites are not descendants of Canaan possibly because they had a great king in Hammurabi and some appeared Caucasian. They were nomadic but twice took over Babylon so that Hammurabi became one of its rulers. Moses said that their king, Og, was the last of the giants (Deuteronomy 3:11) whose bed was 13.5 feet (4 meters) long. This tells us that even back then humanity was losing certain traits, in addition to lifespan, and in my opinion the ability to change colour easily was one. Contrary to what is often implied about Amorite meaning west or lofty, nobody actually has real evidence about what it means (they cannot provide a root). The Hebrew is related to a very common verb ('amar) and basically means to utter. Maybe they had a lot to say or they were rappers:)?

Girgashites

Girgashites according to Wikipedia @2018-12-03

...were descendants of Canaan, according to Genesis 10:16 and 1 Chronicles 1:14, and they also were inhabitants of the land of Canaan, according to Genesis 15:21, Deuteronomy 7:1, Joshua 3:10, 24:11, and Nehemiah 9:8. At times, they are not listed along with the other Canaanite tribes inhabiting the Holy Land; according to some, such as Rashi, this is because they left the Land of Israel before the Israelites returned from Egypt.

Perizites

On the subject of Perizites wikipedia also explaind ...It is possible that their name had a generalized application: that is, it either referred to those who lived in villages (as opposed to being nomadic); or it referred to those whose origins were unknown; or Perizzite may refer to an amalgamation of several peoples.

Hivites and Jebusites

Hivites and Jebusites are also descendants of Canaan. Jebusites are interesting because they lived in the area that became Jerusalem. On the other hand Sidonians (children of his firstborn Zidon) are of Canaanite descent but were not marked for destruction and became close allies of Israel.

The descendants of Canaan include: Sidonians, Hittites (children of Heth), Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites, Hamathites. Many of these have been merged with Israel. In general there was considerable mixing between Shem and Ham but not with Japheth, consider this map https://afireinmybones.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/table-of-nations.jpg for example. We will consider slavery in more detail later in the series.

Hamathites

Hamathites have that name because they are from the city of Hamath in Syria not because they are descendants of Ham. They became friends of David.

Zemarites

Zemarites have no clear etymology but I find them interesting. Some Hebrew scholars recognise it as derived from the masculine noun semer, meaning wool (Deuteronomy 22:11, Isaiah 1:18) and the feminine noun sammeret, meaning treetop (Ezekiel 17:3, 31:3). Who has a woolly top i.e. hair like wool? Easton's Bible dictionary https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/eastons-bible-dictionary/zemarite.html says for Zemarite:

The designation of one of the Phoenician tribes (Genesis 10:18) who inhabited the town of Sumra, at the western base of the Lebanon range. In the Amarna tablets (AD 1400) Zemar, or Zumur, was one of the most important of the Phoenician cities, but it afterwards almost disappears from history.

Arvadites

Arvadites have an extensive entry in International Standard Bible Encyclopedia https://www.internationalstandardbible.com/A/arvad-arvadites.html but I will only extract the following:

...An island city off the coast of Syria some 30 miles North of Tripolis, and the race inhabiting it. It was a barren rock covered with fortifications and houses several stories in height. The island was about 800 ft. long by 500 wide, surrounded by a massive wall, and an artificial harbor was constructed on the East toward the main land. It developed into a trading city in early times, as did most of the Phoenician cities on this coast. It had a powerful navy, and its ships are mentioned in the monuments of Egypt and Assyria...

The centre of their civilisation was not in Canaan but some obviously lived there.

Sinites

Did you know that Chinese are Cananites? Actually Chinese are for the most part Canaanite but one group, the Maio people, trace their ancestry through Noah's son Japheth and his son Gomer, but they look Chinese just the same. This is further evidence that peoples appearance is more a consequence of their environment than their ancestry. You can check http://creationwiki.org/Sinites as one place for more details. China in ancient times was called the land of the Sinites. God said that some of them are Israelites!

Arkites

Arkites are another set of Phonecians. They descend from Canaan. They were a trading town but were too far from the shore to be of major significance to shipping people. Hivites are also Canaanites but only hold a minor place in history as well as the Girgashites mentioned earlier.

The formation of Israel

God began Israel out of Abraham but with the same concept of family, kinship.

Even so Israel was never pure white as some religions claim. The Bible tells us that Israel went into Egypt as 70 persons and it lists them. I know that this is going to open a can of worms about 70 or 75 persons but I direct you to someone else to del with that.  You can try the answer posted on June 21, 2017 by Truth Snitch
How Many of Jacob’s Descendants Went to Egypt- 70 or 75?, https://truthsnitch.com/2017/06/21/many-jacobs-descendants-went-egypt-70-75/. Aside from the 70 or 75 question, we know that for sure Simeon's children were from a Canaanite. 

That was not recorded as anything suspicious, so the question becomes where did the other sons get their wives from? Jacob had cut ties with Laban so they did not go back there. We are talking about God's firstborn. God is interested in family, not black and white. The problem is again raised when we talk about Joseph, the birthright son. Joseph had only two children and they were from an Egyptian woman. I prove in the article on Egypt that Egyptians were black people. God did not care, Joseph did not care, what He did care about was Miriam insulting Moses's wife because she was too black for her liking. Then we have Moses himself, a supposed little white baby adopted by the Egyptian queen and nobody realises that he is adopted. He is just another Egyptian. God wants people to think in terms of family, not colour. To extend family ties to relatives near and far despite differences in biology.

The Mixed Multitude

From the beginning of Israel God made it clear that people of diverse biology would live in His kingdom as one race, Israel.

Notice that God did not say an Egyptian multitude. The only way that it could be mixed is if it contained diverse people who were in Egypt. They would have to be a significant percentage of Canaanites among them. This mixed multitude was absorbed into Israel as part of the twelve tribes and may have been even more than the biological Israelites. The princes the priests and the prophets have made a determined effort to wipe this fact from history. So called race has been used as a means to divide, conquer and subjugate people. Israel was a holy nation. Once it became a nation God sought to preserve its status but not by colour.

God preserved the integrity of Israel by identifying those who hated Israel, those who fought against the principle of such a nation existing. The nation followed His laws and was multi biologically. As we go through the series we will see time after time that this element of God's character has been repeatedly brought under attack by those who hate God.

Canaan had only three sons (Heth, Zidon and Arvad) but many descendants largely concentrated in the land of Canaan. I found this site http://www.israel-a-history-of.com/sons-of-noah.html to be very useful in putting pieces together and this site https://www.livescience.com/56016-canaanites.html to be a concise historical background. As you will see I do not share all of their opinions but the real facts are useful. There are dispersions in Africa or even as far as China according to anthropologists. Abraham was a Shemite from Aphraxad and God sent Him to Canaan. Why? As it turns out God never gave Abram's descendants all of the Canaanite land and never intended to, considering how vast an area Canaanites occupied. Why? God established His Holy Land right in the middle of Canaanites. Why?

When Israel left Egypt it is very likely that the mixed multitude (Exodus 12:38) of Egyptians were mostly Canaanites heading back to their ancestral home. Amarna was constructed as the capital of Egypt by the pharaoh Akhenaten (reign ca. 1,353-1,335 B.C). The Amarna letters are diplomatic correspondence between Akhenaten, his immediate predecessors and successors, and various rulers in the Middle East. They show that there were several kings in Canaan and they were subject to Egypt, making Canaanites very likely a major component of the mixed multitude. We know that there were mixed marriages in Israel.

Even though that was not a flattering example it still proves the point. Egypt was Mizraim not Canaan, but it shows that the marriages occurred. In this case the father was probably left in Egypt and that is why he is not mentioned, but the example goes to show that you did not escape citizenship. He was not sent back to his father but was punished as an Israelite.

Caleb

Caleb the spy is the son of Jephunneh. Jephunneh is called a Kenizzite (Numbers 32:12, Joshua 14:6,14). These are one of the people that God targeted in Canaan and were probably his descendants

Caleb is later listed with the descendants of Judah (I Chronicles 4:1, 15) and became a tribal leader in Judah (Numbers 13:6). To distance Caleb from Canaan some people point to his possible descent from Esau

But Esau's children were Canaanites anyhow. The Hittites were Canaanites.

Even more importantly, remember that Moses wrote that Kenizzites existed from the time of Abraham as mentioned above Genesis 15:19 [KJV], The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, making it more likely that Caleb was a Canaanite from the mixed multitude. He served God under Joshuah, a Shemite.

More mixing

As Israel progressed they were constantly mixed with Canaanites (which explains why God allowed Joshua to be tricked by the Gibeonites in Joshua 9) but God's plan made sure that they would not be enough to corrupt Israel spiritually if they remained obedient. Look at this map taken from https://www.israel-a-history-of.com/sons-of-noah.html. Notice how it shows that Ham (the green) is in the midst of Shem (the red). You can also see from the ashaman.net website (where it now says  Aschmann.net/BibleChronology has now been simplified to biblechronology.net) that the map at https://aschmann.net/BibleChronology/Genesis10/table-of-nations-LocationProbabilities.gif shows that Japeth is largely separate while Ham and Shem are mixed up. Moses black wife was a Canaanite by descent putting Canaan in the priestly (Levitical) tribe. Following this line of reasoning then, by the time Joshua started to drive the people from the land, Canaan would have already been merged in with Israel. This also explains why Shulamith was so dark that she became black in the sun (Song of Solomon 1:5-6).

Keturah

If Canaanites are so vile then why did Abraham marry Keturah. From all appearance she was a local Canaanite girl (i.e. I don't think the he brought her from Ur) who became Abrams concubine (1 Chronicles 1:32-33) just like Hagar and eventually his wife (Genesis 25:1-4) after Sarah died. From her Abraham had six sons: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The Midianites, who hired Balaam, were from her and we find this concerning them in Numbers. Did God eliminate Canaananite black blood or mix it in with Israel?

As an aside Keturah also was the grandmother of Sheba ancestor of the queen of Sheba who some claim that Solomon had progeny from. Job 2:11 ties Teman to Shuah. Shuah was her son too and Bildad was a Shuhite. Eliphaz was a Temanite i.e. a descendant of Esau. Job was from the east (Job 1:3) hence probably Semitic and Canaanite, and he lived around the time when Israel came to Egypt.

In I Chronicles 4:11 we have another Shuah that is claimed to be translated from a female version of the word by Abarim Publications, but is said to be the same as Hushah by wikipedia. The name of this son of Keturah (Genesis 25:2) and the name of this perhaps female descendant of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:11) means Brought Low or Put In A Pit. In Genesis 38 Judah married a Canaanite who was called shuah but this is a different name in Hebrew and means something like salvation or deliverance.

We are told that Hagar was Egyptian (actually a Cushite or Etheopian) but nothing is said of Keturah leaving the assumption that she was local and of similar stock, since her descendants were black as in Ziporrah. In Exodus 2:18 we are introduced to Jethro who was Moses father-in-law, a priest of Midian (i.e. out of Keturah, making the children Canaanites by my reasoning).

Esau had a son called Reuel (Genesis 36:4). Because of this Jethro is said to be a descendant of Esau since he (Jethro) was also called Reuel, but Reuel was just another Canaanite name and both Esau's wives and Keturah were Canaanites. In Exodus 2:18-21 Jethro appears to be called Ruel before he is called Jethro in Exodus 3:1. Ruel had seven daughters one of whom became the wife of Moses. The daughters went to draw water and were assisted by Moses (Exodus 2:18, Exodus 3:1).

But Midianites existed from before Joseph was sold.

We cannot accept what commentaries say as the gospel. Jacob and Esau were a twin. It is unlikely that Esau's child Midian had already become a separate nation by the time of Joseph, but on the other hand Midian the son of Keturah, and Ishmael would have been contemporaries, as is indicated by the verse. While we are on the subject of Midian, there were Midianites that became part of Israel.

Moses went to live in Midian because they were close relatives. Zipporah is actually called a Cushite (translated Ethiopian) not an Edomite, but Jeremiah 13:23 indicates that this is a general term for dark skinned people, some of whom were Israelites (Psalm 7:1 why else would you call yourself Cush). In the new Testament we again find that one of the twelve, an Israelite since Christ only went to Israel, Simon by name, was a Canaanite. He is called the Canaanite (Matthew 10:4; Mark 3:18 KJV) or Zelotes (Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13 KJV). Why? The apostles were chosen to go to lost tribes. Why choose him? There was never a hint of disdain concerning Simon who might be the same as Nathaniel of whom it is recorded, As they approached, Jesus said, Now here is a genuine son of Israel a man of complete integrity, John 1:47 [NLT]. The systems of men have chosen to use colour to divide God's people but that is not of God. Racism is a sin and a sickness that God associated with leprosy, a living death.

Jebusites

Some time later we have God drive out the Canaanites from the areas that He chose but Joshuah says

These remained until the time of David who captured the city. There is no record that David killed them all so what happened with them?

Finally we have Zion becoming a holy spot under these circumstances. Notice that Araunah is a Jebusite by descent not a descendant of Jacob. David did not kill them all.

More Canaanites

Canaanites were a part of God's work in building the New Covenant.

the Syrophoenician woman

Next we have the incident with the Syrophenician woman. The story is recorded twice, once is in Mark 7:24-30.

In Matthew the woman is described as a Canaanite

So the woman spoke Greek and was a native of Phoenicia when it was part of the Roman province of Syria but was Canaanite by descent. This is the only non-Israelite that Christ is recorded to have done a miracle for. Why? All things point to Canaan leading the way for gentiles to Christ (a Shemite) but they will pay a penalty or curse just as most apostles did. Also notice how Christ treated the woman. He was acting like a racist and the woman kept focussed on what really matters. Canaanites have had to to learn this lesson. Discrimination based on race reverses the true situation that God would use Shem to open the gates to God and Canaan would be used to bring other races to Him. Racism is part of the system of the princes, the priests and the prophets and absolutely not part of God's system.

Some say that Girgasites were a Canaanite tribe now identified with the Gergesene in Matthew 8:28. This association is said to lack credible support. I have found no reason to support it either.

Some people claim that God said all Canaanites must be destroyed and they base that on.

was God being unfair or biassed against Canaanites?

God shows that anyone, Israelite or otherwise, that lives in His domain must worship Him alone. God's concern was the hearts of the people and many Canaanites turned their hearts to God before those of any other race. That started in the wilderness with the Midianites that became part of Israel in Numbers 10:29-32 through Hobab, then Rahab on entering Canaan with the first city destroyed. Evidence is that Canaan is part of God's plan to restore rebellious mankind. God is about redeeming mankind, often through hardship, not being petty. The Canaanites show that you cannot tell a persons racial descent from their colour, their eyes, their hair or any of those outward features. God is not racist! God's system is family. God uses the family which is akin to kinship production and in family we do not abandon the weaker ones but we nurture them. We do not isolate ourselves and exploit the weaknesses of our brothers and sisters. Sometimes one has to bear the burden for the many but we do not turn around and dog-pile on the Joseph. We will get back to this subject of Canaan when we deal with America. Canaan is indeed cursed but as part of the plan to save mankind i.e. to save the family.

Acknowledgements

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