Genesis 34:16

Then will we mutually give and take your daughters, and ours: and we will dwell with you, and will be one people:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

In Context

15But in this way may we be allied with you, if you will be like us, and all the male sex among you be circumcised:

17But if you will not be circumcised, we will take our daughter and depart:

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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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