Genesis 34:10

Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.

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In The King James Version

And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

In Context

9And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

11And Shechem said to her father and her brothers, If you will give ear to my request, whatever you say I will give to you.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:9Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.

Genesis 34:21It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.

Genesis 47:27And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 34:7-18

Treachery of Dinah's Brethren. ( b. c. 1732.) 6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him. 7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. 8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife. 9 And make ye marriages with us, and give your… Read the whole commentary →

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