Genesis 34:4

So Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Please get this girl for me. I want her to become my wife!”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.

In Context

3He [SYN] was very much attracted to her, and fell in love with her, and he tried to get her to love him.

5Jacob very soon found out that his daughter Dinah had been disgraced/defiled. But his sons were in the fields with his livestock, so he did nothing about it until they returned home.

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Cross References

Judges 14:2When he returned home, he told his mother and father, “I saw a young Philistine woman in Timnah, and I want you to get her for me so I can marry her.”

Jeremiah 29:6Get married and have children. Then when they grow up, choose wives for your sons, and husbands for your daughters, in order that they also may have children. In that way, the number of you people will increase, not decrease.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 34:2-6

Dinah Dishonoured. ( b. c. 1732.) 1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. 3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel. 4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife. 5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter:… Read the whole commentary →

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