Genesis 21:21
Good News Translation
His mother got an Egyptian wife for him.

New Revised Standard Version
He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

New American Bible
He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

in the.

Numbers 10:12 And the children of Israel marched by their troops from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan.

Numbers 12:16 And the people marched from Haseroth, and pitched their tents in the desert of Pharan.

Numbers 13:3,26 Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from the desert of Pharan, principal men, whose names are these: . . .

1 Samuel 25:1 And Samuel died, and all Israel was gathered together, and they mourned for him, and buried him in his house in Ramatha. And David rose, and went down into the wilderness of Pharan.

a wife.

Genesis 24:3,4 That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell: . . .

Genesis 26:34,35 And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hethite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of the same place. . . .

Genesis 27:46 And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I choose not to live.

Genesis 28:1,2 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan: . . .

Judges 14:2 He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying: I saw a woman in Thamnatha of the daughters of the Philistines: I beseech you, take her for me to wife.

1 Corinthians 7:38 Therefore both he that giveth his virgin in marriage doth well: and he that giveth her not doth better.

Context
Sarah Turns Against Hagar
20And God was with him: and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became a young man, an archer. 21And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
Cross References
Genesis 14:6
And the Chorreans in the mountains of Seir, even to the plains of Pharan, which is in the wilderness.

Genesis 25:18
And he dwelt from Hevila as far as Sur, which looketh towards Egypt, to them that go towards the Assyrians. He died in the presence of all his brethren.

Numbers 10:12
And the children of Israel marched by their troops from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan.

1 Samuel 25:1
And Samuel died, and all Israel was gathered together, and they mourned for him, and buried him in his house in Ramatha. And David rose, and went down into the wilderness of Pharan.

Habakkuk 3:3
God will come from the south, and the holy one from mount Pharan: His glory covered the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise.

Genesis 21:20
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