Genesis 21:21

New American Bible - revised edition

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt. The Covenant at Beer-sheba.

Cross References

Genesis 14:6

and the Horites in the hill country of Seir, as far as El-paran, close by the wilderness.

Genesis 16:3

Thus, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, his wife Sarai took her maid, Hagar the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

Genesis 25:18

The Ishmaelites ranged from Havilah, by Shur, which is on the border of Egypt, all the way to Asshur; and they pitched camp alongside their various kindred. Birth of Esau and Jacob.

Genesis 27:46

Rebekah said to Isaac: “I am disgusted with life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob also should marry a Hittite woman, a native of the land, like these women, why should I live?”

1 Kings 11:18

They left Midian and came to Paran; they gathered men from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he gave Hadad a house, appointed him rations, and assigned him land.

2 Chronicles 24:3

Jehoiada provided him with two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

Jeremiah 29:6

Take wives and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters. Increase there; do not decrease.

Habakkuk 3:3

God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth;

Numbers 10:12

and the Israelites moved on from the wilderness of Sinai by stages, until the cloud came to rest in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 12:16

After that the people set out from Hazeroth and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 13:26

Proceeding directly to Moses and Aaron and the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh, they made a report to them and to the whole community, showing them the fruit of the land.

Numbers 13:3

So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, at the direction of the Lord. All of them were leaders among the Israelites.

1 Corinthians 7:38

So then, the one who marries his virgin does well; the one who does not marry her will do better.

Judges 14:2

On his return he told his father and mother, “I saw in Timnah a woman, a Philistine. Get her for me as a wife.”

1 Samuel 25:1

Samuel died, and all Israel gathered to mourn him; they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David went down to the wilderness of Paran. Nabal and Abigail.