Genesis 21:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ He dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

Common English Bible

²¹ He lived in the Paran desert, and his mother found him an Egyptian wife.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And he lived in the desert of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan: and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

Genesis 21:21 Cross References

Genesis 14:6

and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness.

Genesis 16:3

And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

Genesis 25:18

And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: he abode in the presence of all his brethren.

Genesis 27:46

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

1 Kings 11:18

And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.

2 Chronicles 24:3

And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.

Jeremiah 29:6

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.

Habakkuk 3:3

God came from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.

Numbers 10:12

And the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 12:16

And afterward the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 13:26

And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

Numbers 13:3

And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of the LORD: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.

1 Corinthians 7:38

So then both he that giveth his own virgin daughter in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.

Judges 14:2

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

1 Samuel 25:1

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