Genesis 21:20
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God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageParan was a wilderness region in the Sinai Peninsula, where Ishmael grew up after Hagar and Ishmael were sent away; its setting underscores his life as an outsider yet under God’s preserving care. Egypt, southwest of Paran, was Hagar’s homeland and later supplied Ishmael’s wife, linking his family to her Egyptian background.
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Genesis 21:20 mentions Egypt and Paran.
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