Heth: Son of Canaan, and Ancestor of the Hittites

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  1. And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
  2. Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
  3. The Hittites replied to Abraham,
  4. Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.
  5. Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham,
  6. Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.
  7. …to Abraham’s possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.
  8. 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?”
  9. The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”
  10. And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,