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

In the

And the sons of Israel moved out of the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.

And afterward he moved the people from Hazeroth, and they pitched camp in the wilderness of Paran.

And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran; all those men were princes of the sons of Israel.

And Samuel died, and all Israel gathered together and lamented him and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

A wife

and I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of the heavens and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell;

And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon, the Hittite:

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these who are of the daughters of this land, why should I want to live?

Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

And he came up and told his father and his mother, saying, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore get her for me to wife.

So then he that gives her in marriage does well, but he that does not give her in marriage does better.

General references

And Shechem spoke unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.