Genesis 34:11

And 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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In The King James Version

And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.

In Context

10Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.

12However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.

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Cross References

Genesis 32:6When the servants came back they said, We have seen your brother Esau and he is coming out to you, and four hundred men with him.

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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