In the wilderness of Paran; in the borders of that wilderness, by comparing Gen_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 Gen_24:4 28:2 Jud_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.