Genesis 34:16

then we have given our daughters to you, and we take your daughters for ourselves, and we have dwelt with you, and have become one people;

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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

15Only for this we consent to you: if you are as we, to have every male of you circumcised,

17and if you do not listen to us to be circumcised, then we have taken our daughter, and have gone.”

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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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