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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 15:20/אבן עזרא על בראשית ט״ו:כ׳
אוהרפאים. זה שכתוב ארץ רפאים תחשב (דבר' ג יג) ואל תתמה בעבור שכתוב הכנעני והיבוסי אחריו דע כי השבעה גוים כנעניים הם כולם ועשתי עשר בנים היו לכנען ואחר שהזכיר הששה יאמר הכנעני על הנשארים וכן בפרשה הזאת הם עשרה בפרט ובמקום אחר בכלל, וכן יהודה וישראל רבים (מ"א ד כ), אף על פי שיהודה מישראל הוא:
1AND THE REPHAIM. This is what That also is accounted a land of Rephaim (Deut. 2:20) refers to.49 in our verse refers to the land of Rephaim and not to the Rephaim per se, since the latter were not Canaanites (Weiser). However, Krinsky explains that the Rephaim were a branch of the Canaanites. Do not be surprised that Scripture lists the Canaanite and after him the Jebusite.50 Note: Each one of the seven nations that dwelled in Canaan were Canaanites. They descended from Canaan, who fathered eleven sons. Elsewhere Scripture lists six Canaanite nations by their specific names and includes the remainder under the term Canaanite.51 In our chapter Scripture lists ten of them.52 At other times Scripture includes them all in the term Canaanite without enumerating them. Scripture similarly states, Judah and Israel were many (I Kings 4:20) even though the term Israel includes Judah.53