Genesis 34:4

Sheckem went home and said to his father Hamor, “Can you ask Jacob if I can marry Dinah?”

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In The King James Version

And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.

In Context

3But then, Sheckem fell in love with Dinah and said sweet words to her. He wanted her to love him.

5Dinah went home and told her father what Sheckem did to her. Jacob listened, but he did not say anything until his sons came home from working with their animals.

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Matthew Henry on Genesis 34:2-6

Dinah Dishonoured. ( b. c. 1732.) 1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. 3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel. 4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife. 5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter:… Read the whole commentary →

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