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Genesis 21:21

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He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

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The Ancient Near East (Fertile Crescent)The ancient Near East and Fertile Crescent, from Mesopotamia to Egypt, the world of the patriarchs.
The Journeys of Abraham and the PatriarchsThe journeys of Abraham and the patriarchs from Ur through Canaan and into Egypt.

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Paran was a wilderness region in the Sinai peninsula, where Ishmael grew up after Hagar and Ishmael were sent away from Abraham’s household. Egypt, Hagar’s homeland, supplied Ishmael’s wife, linking his family to Egypt while God fulfilled his promise to make Ishmael a great nation.

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Genesis 21:21 mentions Egypt and Paran.

Egypt · Ricardo Liberato
Paran · ekeidar

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