Genesis 34:9
And I have an idea. Why don't your daughters and sons marry our sons and daughters?
Barkly (portions)
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
8Hamor said to Jacob and his sons, “My son Sheckem really loves Dinah. Will you let him marry her?
Cross References
Genesis 6:2And in those days there were some spirit men, called the Sons of God. When they saw some of those beautiful women, they married the ones they wanted.
Genesis 27:46Rebekah went to see Isaac and said, “I hate those Hittite women that Esau married. If Jacob marries a woman from this country my life will be too hard.”
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 →