'The land of Canaan' in the Word, denotes love, and consequently, the will of the celestial self.

In Genesis 12:5, the land of Canaan signifies the celestial things of love that make up the Lord's kingdom. (Arcana Coelestia 1437)

In Genesis 44:8, it signifies various things: The Lord's kingdom, the church, the man of the church, the celestial of the church, or its good; also its spiritual, or the truth and good as his own. (Arcana Coelestia 5757)

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 485)

4543. 'And Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him' means the arrangement within the kind of natural good that existed at that point. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying to his household, and to all who were with him' as arrangement, and from the representation of 'Jacob' here as natural good, dealt with above in 4538. The reason 'saying to his household, and to all who were with him' means arrangement is that in what follows next the subject in the internal sense is the arrangement of truths by good; for when spiritual good, dealt with above in 4538, starts to play the leading role in the natural mind it arranges into order the truths that are there.