Genesis 34:9

and intermarry with us. Give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves.

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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 said to them, “My son Shechem has set his heart on your daughter. I beg you: give her to him as a wife

10Then you can settle with us, and the land will be open before you. Remain, go about, and settle down in it.”

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Cross References

Genesis 6:2some of the heavenly beings saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful; and they took them as wives, whoever they chose.

Genesis 24:3while I make you promise by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not let my son marry one of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,

Genesis 27:46Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am disgusted with life because of the Hittite women; if Jacob marries a Hittite woman, such as these, the women of the land, I might as well 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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