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Genesis 34:9

In fact we can have more marriages—you can give us your daughters and you can have our daughters.

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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 told them, “My son Shechem is very much in love with your daughter and your sister Dinah. Please allow him to marry her.

10You can live among us and settle down wherever you like. You can go where you want and buy land for yourselves.”

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Cross References

Genesis 6:2and the sons of God saw that these women were beautiful, and they took whichever ones they wanted.

Genesis 24:3and swear an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you won't arrange for my son to marry any daughter of the these Canaanite people that I'm living among.

Genesis 27:46Then Rebekah went and told Isaac, “I'm so sick of these Hittite women—they're ruining my life! If Jacob also marries a Hittite woman like them, one of the local people, I'd rather die!”

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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