Understanding the Curse of Canaan
It's not uncommon to hear that black skin symbolizes the curse of Ham, and it is reflected in the enslavement that the black race endures at the hands of other nations.
Click on the links below to find out why the Curse of Canaan is problematic in so many respects.
What precisely had Ham "done" to make Canaan deserving of such a severe curse?
Which youngest son does this refer to?
Correlation between Japheth, Canaan, and Cain
Why did the prosperity of Ham ruled over Shem and Japhet?
Who are the biblical Canaanites?
The True Meaning of the Curse of Canaan
Let him who has wisdom understand
What precisely had Ham "done" to make Canaan deserving of such a severe curse?
To better understand the significance of the curse of Canaan and the descendants of Ham, we have meticulously and carefully analyzed the validity of these claims, while incorporating two elements: keeping in mind the biblical narrative, and taking into account the historical figures involved. And, in keeping with the Lord's Word, those who aspire to know the truth must necessarily consult ancient history.
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Job 8:8 "Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers."
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Isaiah 46:9 "Remember what happened long ago..."
The name "Canaan" means "humiliated". Following Noah's humiliation, he uttered a curse against the posterity of Canaan, and not against the whole posterity of Ham, as some people believe. Indeed, if Ham was born with black skin, long before Noah pronounced any curse, this would mean that the complexion of his skin could not have been a curse, since he was born that way. In fact, contrary to popular belief, there never was a “curse of Ham”, as Ham was not the beneficiary of the curse but rather his younger son, Canaan.
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Genesis 9:21-25 "But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside... When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him. he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers!"
When Noah awoke, he learned what his youngest son had done. The episode culminates when Noah curses Canaan, Ham's youngest son. Perhaps most disconcerting is the fact that Canaan is severely cursed on account of Ham's indiscreet witnessing of Noah's sexuality.
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Genesis 9:24-25 "When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him. he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers!"
Why impose such a heavy yoke on Canaan, given that he was not the author of the humiliation?
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According to Jewish legend, Canaan was the first to uncover Noah's nakedness, and he informed his father Ham, who in turn informed his brothers Shem and Japheth; and when Noah woke up, he cursed Canaan for having been the first cause of the scandal. Another version mentions that it was Canaan who sinned against Noah in the manner of the sodomites. Cham, having seen the deed, spread the news with mockery. In fact, nudity was a taboo in ancient Israelite society, and uncovering one's parents' nakedness had connotations of sexual intimacy and sometimes even incest or rape. Note that in the Bible, the notion of "uncovering one's father's nakedness" has a very broad meaning and does not exclude the fact that Noah's wife may also have been subjected to the humiliation.
Leviticus 18:8 "The nakedness of your father’s wife you shall not uncover; it is your father’s nakedness." -
According to the Talmud (Sanhedrin 70a) Noah was castrated or raped. The Gemara explains that whoever says that Ham castrated Noah provides the following proof: Cham having castrated his father Noah deprived him of the possibility of conceiving a fourth son, which Noah wanted but could no longer have, so Noah cursed him through his fourth son Canaan. And whoever says that Ham sodomized Noah says so by a verbal analogy of the words “and he uncovered his father's nakedness” because the term “uncovering” alludes to sexual intercourse.
All these elements may be implicit in the story, although the text is unclear on the subject.
Which youngest son does this refer to?
If you read Genesis 9:21-25 very carefully, you will realize that it is a very ambiguous verse and raises a number of questions and problems. Such complexities have led modern biblical critics to speculate on the entanglement of numerous sources and textual corruptions that might have generated such confusion, or to speculate that something might have changed in an earlier version of human history. Indeed, this brief account presents the following challenges in terms of interpretation.
Firstly, in all genealogies, the Bible systematically lists the male children according to their birth order. In the following verses, the birth order of Noah's children is as follows:
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Genesis 5:32 "After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japhet"
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Genesis 7:13 "In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark"
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Genesis 9:18 "The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth."
Note that this order is also consistently repeated in several non-canonical Books classified as apocrypha.
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"And in the twenty-fifth jubilee Noah took to himself a wife, and her name was Emzara, the daughter of Rakeel, the daughter of his father's brother, in the first year in the fifth week: and in the third year thereof she bare him Shem, in the fifth year thereof she bare him Ham, and in the first year in the sixth week she bare him Japheth." |The Book of Jubilees, chap. 4:33|
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"And she bare unto him three sons. Shem, Ham, and Japhet." |The Book of Adam and Eve, chap. 3-1:8|
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"As to those three sons of Noah, the first of them is Shem; the next is Ham; and the third is Japhet." |The Book of Adam and Eve, chap. 3-3:5|
In Genesis 10:21, Most Bibles clearly state that Japheth is younger than Shem, his elder brother.
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"And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born." |JPS Tanakh 1917|
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"And Shem, Japheth’s older brother, also had sons. Shem was the father of all the sons of Eber." |Holman Christian Standard Bible|
Only the King James Bible seem to imply that Japheth is the eldest, and many experts and scholars also maintain and teach that Japheth is the eldest of Noah's sons.
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"Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. |King James Bible|
Three hypotheses...
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In Genesis 9:24, it is written, "when Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him, he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.” In Hebrew, the word “son” is not entirely explicit, as it signifies “builder of the family name,” an expression that can be used to refer to a grandson or even a very distant descendant. Thus, the expression “his youngest son” is not necessarily a direct reference to Noah's youngest son, but could well imply Canaan “the youngest son of Ham.” In other words, Canaan would not have been punished for Ham's fault, but only for his own.
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If we were to apply the genealogy of Noah's sons in accordance with the biblical context, that is, Shem (the firstborn), Ham (the secondborn), and Japheth (the youngest), the expression “his youngest son” would refer to Japheth.
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The name “Canaan” may actually be a textual corruption of the name Cain or Cainite. In other words, Noah would not have cursed an individual named Canaan but rather the Cainite posterity.
✍In Genesis 9:24, it is written that it was the youngest son who humiliated Noah. If no Scripture has ever clearly designated Ham as the youngest of Noah's sons, why was he given the title of youngest son and not Japheth? Why is it that the traditional sequence of genealogies does not seem to apply to Japheth, and although he is mentioned last, he is not the youngest?
Something is clearly amiss, and it is obvious that changes must have been made to the original text to create such a contradiction.
Correlation between Japheth, Canaan, and Cain
A thorough study of biblical characters reveals that Cain, Canaan, and Japheth share a common trait, that of white skin, which predominates in their lineages. And as you will discover as you continue reading, this detail is of importance.
Canaan
The Bible states that the Giants (Naphidim) were the heroes of antiquity. It should be noted that antiquity generally refers to classical antiquity, i.e. the period from the 8th century B.C. to the 4th century A.D. in the Mediterranean region, in particular the Greek and Roman civilizations descended from Japhet. In other words, the giants Naphidim the Bible talks about were descendants of Japhet.
It is written in Genesis 15:19-21, that the giants who populated the Promised Land were not only comprised of Canaanites, but also of Kenites, Kenizites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim, Amorites, Girgashites and Jebusites. When reviewing the biblical references to these giants, it is very difficult to draw a clear conclusion as to their identity. However, much can be deduced about the spiritual significance of their names.
Kenite
is derived from the name Cain. Thus, the Kenites or Cainites were descendants of Cain, from the lineage of Japhet. They seem to have been well respected in the Scriptures. Skilled artists, they lived near Mount Sinai and developed fruitful trade relations with other tribes living in the region. But they had conflicting relations with the Canaanites. See the story of Ehud's assassination of Eglon and Jael's murder of Sisera. (Judges 3 and 4)
Kenizite
is derived from the Hebrew verb “qanaz” and evokes a hunter or trapper. This name does not describe a physical descent, but rather a professional activity that would be assimilated to the international trade of human beings. The Kenizites are said to be “hunters of men”, and were known for their role in the vast world of exchanging and selling humans |Abarim Publications|
Kadmonites
is derived from the Hebrew adverb “qedem” and can mean antiquity as well as the Levant (the place where the sun rises). The denominative verb “qadam” means to precede or to be ahead, to anticipate, to be in the forefront. The noun “qadim”, meaning east or oriental, is often used to indicate a destructive wind blowing eastwards. |Abarim Publications|
Hittite
is derived from the Hebrew verb "hatat" and means "terror". People with the hittite spirit are stealth operators who prey on the emotions with the aim of causing a sense of deep despair, torment and emotional terror. |Abarim Publications|
Rephaim
is derived from the Hebrew verb "rapa", meaning to bring down, to sink, to cause to fall, The name “repai'm” refers to the “sunken”, i.e. the spectres or ghosts of people who are no longer alive. They are described in the Bible as "giants" and "mighty men". In Ugaritic texts and Phoenician funerary inscriptions, they are depicted as healers or physicians; kings, rulers, judges, heroes and generals; gods or demi-gods; giants or titans. |Abarim Publications|
Amorite
is derived from the Hebrew verb "amar" meaning "to declare, to pronounce"; and could be literally translated as "one who speaks". People with the Amorite spirit have a need to be noticed, and revered by others, they also like to "give orders" and have people "obey" them. In other words, Amorites like to be "kings". |Abarim Publications|
Girgashite
is derived from the Hebrew verb "garar" which means "dwellers of clay soil" or "to take and strike". People with the Girgashite spirit focus on earthly, temporal things, and despise spiritual, eternal things |Abarim Publications|
Jebusite
is derived from the Hebrew verb "bus", which means to trample. People with the Jebusite spirit don't hesitate to belittle and humiliate others, whenever they see these "little people" trying to assert their authority. Jebusites believe that some people are inherently inferior, and have no right to show any authority. |Abarim Publications|
Psalm 151
The Bible also mentions that there were giants right up to the time of David. Psalm 151 is a psalm attributed to King David after he slayed the giant Goliath and refers to the giants, it is found in most copies of the Septuagint, the Vetus Latina, the Vulgate, the Peshitta and various bibles of the Churches of the Three Councils, but it has been excluded from the Massoretic texts of the Hebrew Bible and the Catholic biblical canon. The subtle inference is that these giants have Japhetic origins.. It should be noted that beauty and great height has always been associated with Japhet. According to Strongs, the primitive root of the name Japhet in Hebrew means to open up, enlarge or beauty, but also to delude, flatter, deceive or persuade.
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"My brothers were handsome and tall, But the Lord was not pleased with them. I went out to meet the Philistine, and he cursed me by his idols. But I drew his own sword; I beheaded him, and took away disgrace from the people of Israel."
✍ Were these tribes of Canaanite giants who populated the Promised Land actually Caucasian nations?
Canaan begat two sons: Sidon and Heth (Genesis 10:15)
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The Sidonians were an ancient people associated with the city of Sidon, located in the region known as Phoenicia, along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Ancient archaeology indicates that the early Sidonians may have been Caucasian people.
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Heth begot Hor (Hur), who was the progenitor of Seir the Horite. Seir would therefore be the great-great-grandson of Canaan.
Seir * the son of Hur, the son of Heveus, the son of Canaan, found a valley near mount Pharan, and he settled there with his seven sons and all his family. He gave his name to the city he built there. It is the country called Seir * until the present day. |Jasher 10:28|
According to Genesis 36, during his father's lifetime, Esau went to Mount Seir, which had originally been named after Seir the Horite, whose descendants, the “Horites/Hurrians,” had previously occupied the region. There, Esau subjugated them, took possession of Mount Seir, and renamed it “the land of Edom” or “Idumea.” Esau then married and cohabited with the “Horites/Hurrians,” and their descendants became the Edomites (the red people).
**In Hebrew, the word "Hori", חרִי or "Chori", means "white". As stated by the ISBE (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia), it could possibly mean "white nation".
**Another tradition holds that the name Horite comes from חוֹר or chor, meaning “hole” or “cave”, presumably because the Horites were considered “Troglodytes or cavemen”. Note that the only time troglodytes are mentioned in the Bible is in Job 30:6, and they are described in the most pejorative sense of the term, namely troglodytes of the worst kind.
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Job 30:4-8 "Whose houses were the caves of the rocks, who lived under the wild shrubs. They will cry out among the rustling bushes. They are sons of fools and vile men, whose name and glory are quenched from off the earth. But now I am their music, and they have me for a by-word. And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face."
If Seir the Horite and his descendants were a white nation, this means that Canaan, the fourth son of Ham and ancestor of Seir (father of the Horites), would have been the progenitor of a white nation.
✍The implication is that the Canaanites were Caucasian populations. But where did Canaan's Caucasian descendants come from, given that he is supposed to be descended from Ham, who is historically identified as the ancestor of the black race?
Cain
If you carefully read Cain's curse according to the Bible, you will come to discern that the mark that was placed on Cain was a visible sign in his appearance which would protect him, so that no one would be inclined to want to harm him. This mark bestowed considerable value on the lives of Cain and his posterity, so that anyone who would dare to attack or kill them would face grave consequences, sevenfold vengeance on earth. According to certain books classified as apocryphal, the mark placed on Cain was rather terror and trembling, and he remained a wanderer on the earth. The vision of wandering symbolizes spiritual wandering. In other words, Cain will not cleave to spiritual values, but only to earthly and material things, fully aware of the repercussions of his actions and yet fearful and trembling over his fate.
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Genesis 4:15 "replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him."
It's a fact that black skin is the origin of all other skin tones. It is therefore logical to assert that Adam and Eve would have lived on Earth as individuals with black, dark or brown skin, and that their sons Abel and Cain were as well. In view of this reality, several experts have hypothesized that the curse placed on Cain as a sign could have been a total loss of melanin in his skin. The hypothesis of the loss of melanin is also substantiated by certain biblical characters, notably Naaman, Gehazi, and Miriam (Aaron's sister), whose skin was stripped of its melanin as a sign of a curse.
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Numbers 12:10 "And when the cloud departed from above the tabernacle, suddenly Miriam became leprous, as white as snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was, a leper"
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2 Kings 5:27 "Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and your descendants forever!” And as Gehazi left his presence, he was leprous—as white as snow."
Note that some texts considered apocryphal describe Cain as being of the color of the stars. It's important to understand that whenever the Scriptures insist on describing an individual's skin color, the implication is that that person's skin complexion was markedly different from the rest of his family or the people around him.
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And thus Cain lived for eight hundred and sixty years. Then he was in despair, for he wished to die, and did not die. And God brought from above a skin and covered him. |History of Cain and Abel, the Sons of Adam|
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"Eve arose as the angel had instructed her: she gave birth to an child and his color was like that of the stars. He fell into the hands of the midwife and at once he began to pluck up the grass, for in his mother's hut grass was planted. The midwife replied to him and told him: "ELOHIM is just that he did not at all leave you in my hands. For, you are Cain, the perverse one, killer of the good, for you are the one who plucks up the fruit-bearing tree, and not him who plants it. You are the bearer of bitterness and not of sweetness." |La Vita Adae and Evae, 21.3a - 21.3b|
The Bible teaches that some women from Cain's bloodline had intimate relations with angels and begat Giants. We also know that women from Cain's bloodline married into Seth's bloodline, the family from which Noah descended.
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Genesis 6:4 "The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.."
The Bible teaches that women from Cain's lineage interbred with fallen angels and gave birth to giants. However, certain apocryphal texts, such as the Book of Enoch, imply that Noah was born with white skin and resembled the children of fallen angels. In other words, the children of fallen angels were born with white skin.
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"And after those days my son Methuselah chose a wife for his son Lamech and she became pregnant by him and bore a son. And his body was white like snow, and red like the flower of a rose, and the hair of his head was white like wool. And his eyes were beautiful and when he opened his eyes he made the whole house bright, like the Sun, so that the whole house was exceptionally bright. And when he was taken from the hand of the midwife he opened his mouth and spoke to the Lord of Righteousness. And his father Lamech was afraid of him, and fled, and went to his father Methuselah. And he said to him: "I have begotten a strange son; he is not like a man but is like the children of the Angels of Heaven, of a different type and not like us. And his eyes are like the rays of the Sun and his face glorious. And it seems to me that he is not sprung from me but from the Angels and I am afraid that something extraordinary may be done on the earth in his days." |Enoch 106: 1-6|
Why did the prosperity of Ham ruled over Shem and Japhet?
According to Sefer ha-Yashar or the Book of Jasher, when Nimrod was 18 years old, a war broke out between the Hamites (his relatives) and the Japhetites. The latter were victorious at first, but Nimrod, leading a small army of Cushites, attacked and defeated them, whereupon he became king over all the peoples of the earth and appointed Terah, father of Abraham from Shem's bloodline, as his minister and servant. Yet, it seems somewhat odd that Nimrod, grandson of Ham, became the first king to establish a powerful empire on earth and inhabit the most prosperous region of the world, only 130 years after the flood and at a time when Noah and those to whom he and his descendants had been subjected were still alive.e.
If Ham was the one who humiliated his father, it implies that the curse he was under precluded him and his descendants from attaining kingship, as they were condemned to serve the descendants of Shem and Japheth, not to rule over them. Yet, History and archaeological evidence attest that Ham's lineage was the world's first imperial power, first under Nimrod in Babylonia, then under the Pharaohs in Egypt. Nimrod then went on to rule over the descendants of Shem and Japheth in the royal hierarchy.
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Genesis 10:8 "Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth."
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Psalm 68:32 "Princes shall come out of Egypt"
✍If the curse of Canaan was meant to subject Ham's descendants to servitude, why was Nimrod, Ham's grandson, also known as Baal/Osiris, the first king of the earth? And why, throughout history, has the global elite remained under the authority of the cult of Baal/Osiris (Nimrod), to the point of erecting memorials in his honor throughout the world?
This would not be called into question if Nimrod had descended from Japheth's bloodline, for a certain degree of greatness was bestowed upon him.
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Genesis 9:27 "God will enlarge Yapheth" - Aramaic Bible in Plain English
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Genesis 9:27 "May God expand the territory of Japheth" - Berean Standard Bible
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Genesis 9:27 "God increase Iaphet" - Coverdale Bible of 1535
The Biblical Canaanites
Before addressing the real meaning of the curse of Canaan, let first clarify who the biblical Canaanites are.
Canaan begat Sidon, Heth, Leboussi, Emori, Gigarshi, Hivi, Harqi, Sini, Arvadi, Semari and Hamati. According to the official narrative, his sons settles in the following regions: Lebanon, Palestine, Jerusalem, Syria and Georgia.
The Bible also teaches that Canaan settled in a land that had been promised to Abraham and his descendants. Chapter 10:29-30 of the Book of Jubilees, a document classified as apocryphal, corroborates the biblical writings that Canaan and his descendants did not migrate to the territory which was rightfully theirs, but appropriated part of the territory of Shem, namely: present-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. His father and brothers rebuked him, saying:
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"You have settled in a land which is not your, and which did not fall to us by lot: do not do so; for if you do so, you and your sons will fall in the land and (be) accursed through sedition; for by sedition you have settled, and by sedition will your children fall, and you shall be rooted out for ever." |The Book of Jubilees, Chapter 10:30|.
Indeed, the territory that Canaan unjustly appropriated is to this day plagued by sedition, with two groups claiming legitimacy as their own, under the name they have chosen. One land, but two names, hence the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has spawned countless agitations, uprisings, riots and subversions.
A few interesting facts about the Canaanites
► A team of researchers from the Hebrew University led by Professor Liran Carmel (an expert in computational biology from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences) and Professor Binyamin Yakir (a statistician from the Department of Statistics and Data Science), with the help of a research grant from the National Science Foundation, sought to decipher the genetics of the Canaanites. Through DNA analysis, it was discovered that the Canaanites were a mixture of populations that had migrated to the southern Levant, mainly from the Caucasus region, with ancient local populations that had stayed behind, a process that lasted at least 1,000 years.
► It has been shown that the Canaanites had become polytheists enslaved to idolatry, and whose principal gods were the Ba'als, Astarte, Molech, Dagon, etc., to whom they erected sacrificial altars practicing Canaanite magic, snake worship and child sacrifice. The Canaanite fertility ritual was characterized by the presence of male and female prostitutes in temples and sanctuaries. Due to their moral depravity or slavery to idolatry, ELOHIM subjected them to destruction through the numerous wars they waged against the sons of Jacob.
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Numbers 21:3 "And the LORD heard Israel’s plea and delivered up the Canaanites. Israel devoted them and their cities to destruction; so they named the place Hormah."
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Deuteronomy 9:5 "It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
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Exodus 23:28 "I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.."
► Jezebel was a Canaanite princess, daughter of the priest-king Ethbaal, ruler of the Phoenician (present-day Lebanon) coastal cities of Tyre and Sidon (Ṣaydā or Arabia). Raised in Sidon, she married Ahab of Israel for diplomatic reasons. She introduced the Canaanite pagan religion to the Israelites, bringing in foreign gods and goddesses. She is associated with prostitution, witchcraft, mass killings, persecution of God's prophets, cruelty, lavish ceremonies and opulence, expensive jewelry, and makeup.
✍If the biblical Canaanites and the land of Canaan refer to populations originating from the Caucasus and the Middle East, then why has the curse of Canaan been associated to Africans and black people as a whole?
The more you deepen your understanding of the curse of Canaan, the more a sinister agenda to justify the atrocities and mistreatment inflicted on the black race as a whole will begin to take shape.
The True Meaning of "The Curse of Canaan"
Noah declared that Canaan would be "a servant of servants"; in other versions of the Bible this is translated: "The lowest of slaves".
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The word "slave" used for Canaan is the Hebrew term "Ehbed" which expresses "possession", and is often used to describe a servant or slave who has been freed by his owner, but chooses to stay and continue to serve out of love and devotion.
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"Servant of servants" is translated as "Ehbed of ehbed" which means "one who is spiritually enslaved to a deity".
This implies that the consequences of Canaan's transgression will be such that he'll remain in a state of spiritual slavery which will compel him to serve the "ehbed" not by love or choice, but rather by imposition and obligation, making him lower than the "ehbed" he serves. Consequently, the curse of Canaan does not concern the enslavement of the black race, but rather the spiritual servitude imposed upon Canaan's descendants, to serve other gods under pressure and coercion. In other words, Canaan and his descendants will not serve the true Elohim.
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Genesis 9:26 "And he said: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; And let Canaan be their servant." - The adjective “their” does not necessarily refer to Shem and Japheth, but it may well implicate those who do not serve ELOHIM, namely the devil and demons, thus expressing the fact that Canaan will be the servant of these evil entities..
The Bible declares that malevolent, diabolical entities rule the world's Western powers, namely Persia and Greece
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Daniel 10:20 "Do you know why I have come to you?” he said. “I must return at once to fight against the prince of Persia, and when I have gone forth, behold, the prince of Greece will come."
According to the historical account, the ancient Greek world was made up of city-states that encompassed the whole of present-day Greece and southern Italy, as well as the entire Mediterranean and Black Sea coastline, including the coastal regions of Spain, France, Egypt, Libya, Turkey, Bulgaria, Ukraine, etc. In its prime, the Ancient Persian Empire was the most powerful in the world. At its height, the ancient Persian Empire comprised the regions of Iran, Egypt, Turkey and parts of present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The Bible also declares that and the Goat presides over Greece, yet historically the Goat has always symbolized the devil.
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Daniel 8:21 "The shaggy goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes is the first king.
Interestingly, some biblical passages and occulted texts seem to reveal that dominion has been bestowed upon the nations of the Western world so that they would be submissive to and serve the devil, and this is on account of their proclivity to disobey divine laws and submit to demonic precepts that defy God's principles.
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And יהוה said unto Adam: "O Adam, what seekest thou on the western border? And why hast thou left of thine own accord the eastern border, in which was thy dwelling-place? "Now, then, turn back to thy cave, and remain in it, that Satan do not deceive thee, nor work his purpose upon thee. "For in this western border, O Adam, there will go from thee a seed, that shall replenish it; and that will defile themselves with their sins, and with their yielding to the behests of Satan, and by following his works." |The conflict of Adam and Eve, Chapter 1-53|
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And He said: “This is the human world, this is Adam, and this is their desire upon the earth, this is Eve; but he who is between them representeth ungodliness, their beginning (on the way) to perdition, even Azazel.” ... And He said to me: “They who will (to do) evil—and how much I hated (it) in those who do it!—over them I gave him power, and to be beloved of them.” |The Apocalypse of Abraham, Chap 23:6-8|