Genesis 21:21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Cross References

Genesis 14:6

and the Horites in the hill country of Seir as far as El-paran on the edge of the wilderness;

Genesis 16:3

So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife.

Genesis 25:18

They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria; he settled down alongside all his people.

Genesis 27:46

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women such as these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

1 Kings 11:18

They set out from Midian and came to Paran; they took people with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, assigned him an allowance of food, and gave him land.

2 Chronicles 24:3

Jehoiada got two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

Jeremiah 29:6

Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.

Habakkuk 3:3

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

Numbers 10:12

Then the Israelites set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 12:16

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

Numbers 13:26

And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.

Numbers 13:3

So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the Lord, all of them leading men among the Israelites.

1 Corinthians 7:38

So then, he who marries his fiancée does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do better.

Judges 14:2

Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw a Philistine woman at Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”

1 Samuel 25:1

Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David got up and went down to the wilderness of Paran.