Genesis 34:9
And let us contract marriages one with another: give us your daughters and take you our daughters,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
In Context
10And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade,and possess it.
Cross References
Genesis 6:2The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took themselves wives of all which they chose.
Genesis 24:3That I may make thee swear by the Lord the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell:
Genesis 27:46And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I choose not to live.
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 →