In Hebrew, however, some groups are referred to as bnei, or "children of", as with "the children of Israel" (i.e. the Israelites); while others are given the suffix -i, as with Kna'ani or "Canaanite". This suggests that the members of some groups were identified as the common ...
10-13. And not only this; but when Rebecca, &c.—It might be thought that there was a natural reason for preferring the child of Sarah, as being Abraham's true and first wife, both to the child of Hagar, Sarah's maid, and to the children of Keturah, his second wife. But there...