Gen 24:37-38 | TSK | e4.org | And my , , ; Canaanites The Canaanites were infected with gross idolatry; and consequently, not proper persons with whom to form so intimate a connection; especially as Jehovah had shown Abraham that they were filling up the measure of their iniquity, and were doomed to destruction.

‏ Genesis 24:37-38

And my Gen 24:2-9, Gen 6:2, Gen 27:46; Ezra 9:1-3

Canaanites The Canaanites were infected with gross idolatry; and consequently, not proper persons with whom to form so intimate a connection; especially as Jehovah had shown Abraham that they were filling up the measure of their iniquity, and were doomed to destruction.

But Gen 24:4, Gen 12:1

my father's i.e., Where the family of Haran his brother had settled; and where he himself had remained some time with his father Terah. Nahor did not dwell at Ur of the Chaldees, but at Haran in Mesopotamia. The true worship of God seems to have been in some measure preserved in this family, though afterwards corrupted. Gen 31:19