and the Israelites started on their journey out of the Sinai Desert. The cloud came to rest in the wilderness of Paran.

Then they left Hazeroth and set up camp in the wilderness of Paran.

Moses obeyed and from the wilderness of Paran he sent out leaders, as follows: (Tribe: Leader); Reuben: Shammua son of Zaccur; Simeon: Shaphat son of Hori; Judah: Caleb son of Jephunneh; Issachar: Igal son of Joseph; Ephraim: Hoshea son of Nun; Benjamin: Palti son of Raphu; Zebulun: Gaddiel son of Sodi; Manasseh: Gaddi son of Susi; Dan: Ammiel son of Gemalli; Asher: Sethur son of Michael; Naphtali: Nahbi son of Vophsi; Gad: Geuel son of Machi

to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of Israel at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran. They reported what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had brought.

Samuel died, and all the Israelites came together and mourned for him. Then they buried him at his home in Ramah. After this, David went to the wilderness of Paran.

I want you to make a vow in the name of the LORD, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the people here in Canaan.

You must go back to the country where I was born and get a wife for my son Isaac from among my relatives."

When Esau was forty years old, he married two Hittites, Judith the daughter of Beeri, and Basemath the daughter of Elon.

They made life miserable for Isaac and Rebecca.

Rebecca said to Isaac, "I am sick and tired of Esau's foreign wives. If Jacob also marries one of these Hittites, I might as well die."

Isaac called Jacob, greeted him, and told him, "Don't marry a Canaanite.

Go instead to Mesopotamia, to the home of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of the young women there, one of your uncle Laban's daughters.

He went back home and told his father and mother, "There is a Philistine woman down at Timnah who caught my attention. Get her for me; I want to marry her."

So the man who marries does well, but the one who doesn't marry does even better.