Genesis 34:9
Intermarry with us; give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.
Majority Standard Bible
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
8But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
Cross References
Genesis 6:2the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.
Genesis 24:3and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,
Genesis 27:46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
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 →