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Genesis 34:12

Ask 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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In The King James Version

Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

In Context

11Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you tell me I will give.

13The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, because Shechem had defiled Dinah their sister.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:53The servant brought out articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and to her mother.

Genesis 31:41These twenty years I have been in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock. You have changed my wages ten times.

Exodus 22:16If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and if he sleeps with her, he must surely make her his wife by paying the bride wealth required for this.

1 Samuel 18:25Then Saul said, “Say this to David, 'The king does not desire any price for the bride except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged from the king's enemies.'” Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

Hosea 3:2So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a lethek of barley.

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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