In the wilderness of Paran; in the borders of that wilderness, by comparing Genesis 14:6, for the innermost parts of it were uninhabitable by men or beasts, as ancient writers note. His mother took him a wife; by which we see both the obligation that lies upon parents, and the right that is invested in them, to dispose of their children in marriage in convenient time. Compare Genesis 24:4, Genesis 28:2 Judges 14:2. Out of the land of Egypt, rather than out of Canaan, concerning whose accursed state and future destruction she had been informed in Abraham's house.
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Genesis 21:21
21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.