THEOSISGenesis 21:21Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב בְּמִדְבַּ֣ר פָּארָ֑ן וַתִּֽקַּֽח־ל֥וֹ אִמּ֛וֹ אִשָּׁ֖ה מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Judg 14:2He 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.
- Gen 24:3That 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:
- Gen 24:4But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.
- Num 13:26And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round all the country,
- Gen 26:34And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hethite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of the same place.
- Gen 26:35And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.
- Gen 27:46And 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.
- Gen 28:2But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bathuel, thy mother's father, and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban, thy uncle.