Genesis 34:11

Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you tell me I will give.

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And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.

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10You will live with us, and the land will be open to you to live and trade in, and to acquire property.”

12Ask me for as great a bride price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me, but give me the young woman as a wife.”

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Cross References

Genesis 32:6The messengers returned to Jacob and said, “We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

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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