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On the biblical account, the Israelites conquered Canaan because they needed land and because God had promised it to them. However, it is reported that over 80 per cent of scholars say that there never was a military conquest of Canaan as described in The Bible. The Israelites were West Semitic people themselves, in effect Canaanites, and had migrated into the Palestinian hinterland towards the end of the thirteenth century BCE.

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