Genesis 21:21

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Genesis 21:21

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

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A wife

General references

Genesis 34:4

Bible References

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so the Israelis set out from the Sinai Wilderness until the cloud settled in the Paran Wilderness,

After that, the people traveled from Hazeroth and encamped in the Wilderness of Paran.

So that's just what Moses did, sending them from the Wilderness of Paran according to the LORD's instructions. All of the men were Israeli leaders.

Samuel died and all Israel assembled to mourn for him. They buried him at his home in Ramah.

A wife

as a promise to the LORD, the God of heaven and earth, that you won't acquire a wife for my son from the Canaanite women among whom I'm living.

When Esau was 40 years old, he married Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Rebekah also told herself, "Heth's daughters are making me tired of living. If Jacob marries one of Heth's daughters, and she turns out to be just like these other local women, what kind of life would there be left for me?"

Later, Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, instructing him, "Don't marry a wife from the local Canaanite women.

Then he returned and told his father and mother, "In Timnah I saw a woman of Philistine origin." He ordered them, "Get her for me as a wife. Now!"

So then the man who marries the virgin acts appropriately, but the man who refrains from marriage does even better.

General references

Then Shechem told his father Hamor, "Get this young woman for me to be my wife."