Exodus
1312BCE to 1272 BCE.
The Israelites returned from Egypt to Canaan because God told them to (Exodus ch.3).
The Hebrew nation crossed the Red Sea when leaving slavery in Egypt on their journey to Canaan. According to the biblical account, Moses parted the waters of the Red Sea to allow the Israelites to pass through, escaping the pursuing Egyptian army.
The biblical Canaan is located in modern-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and parts of Jordan and Syria. The region has historical and cultural significance as the promised land in the Bible.
sinai peninsula
AnswerIn biblical times, there was never a single nation-state of Canaan. however, the ancient Greeks thought that the Philistines occupied the entire southern Levant, and so called it Palestine. The northern Levant, corresponding roughly to modern Lebanon and Syria, they called Phoenicia.
Biblical Canaan encompassed modern-day Israel and Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories, plus adjoining coastal lands and parts of Jordan, Syria and northeastern Egypt.
According to the Biblical narrative (Genesis ch.41-42), there was a famine in Canaan, but there was enough food in Egypt to sustain Jacob and his family. As a result, they moved to Egypt (Genesis ch.46).
The country that ruled CANAAN was Egypt
The Israelite s left Egypt for Canaan.
Yes, Moses lead the 'children of Israel' out of Egypt.
Yes, but not at the same time. When Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob's family lived there, it was Canaan. After the slavery and exodus from Egypt, their descendants, numbering millions by that time, returned to the land and displaced the Canaanites.