Quotes About Culture

And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.

The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.

Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushites, and the Leummites.

Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”

Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.

Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

So Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.”

But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.

Intermarry with us; give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves.

“We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.

But if you will not agree to be circumcised, then we will take our sister and go.”

Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,

There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with her.

He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.

They separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.