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Genesis 34:9
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So make affinitie wt vs: giue your daughters vnto vs, and take our daughters vnto you,
Intermarry with us, and give your daughters to us in marriage, and take our daughters to you,
Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
This marriage will show we have a special agreement. Then our men can marry your women, and your men can marry our women.
Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
Why don't you start letting your families marry into our families and ours marry into yours?
and intermarry with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
And make marriages with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you.
And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
And make ye mariages with vs, and giue your daughters vnto vs, and take our daughters vnto you.
"And [beyond that] intermarry with us; give your daughters to us [as wives] and take our daughters for yourselves.
and intermarry with us. Give us your daughters, and take our daughters for your sons.
And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
Intermarry with us; give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves.
Make marriages with us. Give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.
And you intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
Marry our people. Give your women to our men as wives and take our women for your men as wives.
And make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to yourselves.
In fact, let's arrange other marriages, too. You give us your daughters for our sons, and we will give you our daughters for your sons.
Marry with our people. Give your daughters to us. And take our daughters for yourselves.
And exchange ye daughters with us in marriage, - your daughters, shall ye give to us, and our daughters, shall ye take to you.
And let us contract marriages one with another: give us your daughters, and take you our daughters.
Make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
Let us make an agreement that there will be intermarriage between our people and yours.
And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
and ioyne we weddyngis to gidere; yyue ye youre douytris to vs,
and join ye in marriage with us; your daughters ye give to us, and our daughters ye take to yourselves,
Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
And make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you.
And make ye marriages with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you.
And make maryages with vs, and geue your daughters vnto vs, and take our daughters vnto you.
Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
make frendshipe with vs, geue vs youre doughters, and take ye oure doughters,
"And intermarry with us; give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves.
Make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
"Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves.
And intermarry with us; give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Genesis 6:2, Genesis 19:14, Genesis 24:3, Genesis 26:34, Genesis 26:35, Genesis 27:46, Deuteronomy 7:3
Reciprocal: Genesis 28:1 - Thou shalt
Cross-References
the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.
Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. He said, "Quick, get out of this place because the Lord is about to destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them.
so that I may make you solemnly promise by the Lord , the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am deeply depressed because of these daughters of Heth. If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!"
You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And make ye marriages with us,.... There was no objection on their side, it lay on the other; Abraham's servant was charged by him not to take a wife of the Canaanites to his son Isaac; and the same charge was given Jacob by Isaac, Genesis 24:3; and therefore Jacob would never agree that his children should marry any of that nation; and marriages with them were afterwards forbidden by the law of Moses, Deuteronomy 7:3;
[and] give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you; for though at present there were no other daughters in Jacob's family, yet there might be hereafter; and the request is, that for the future there might be intermarriages between them, as would be practicable in a course of time.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
- Dinah’s Dishonor
This chapter records the rape of Dinah and the revenge of her brothers.
Genesis 34:1-5
Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land. The Jewish doctors of a later period fix the marriageable age of a female at twelve years and a day. It is probable that Dinah was in her thirteenth year when she went out to visit the daughters of the land. Six or seven years, therefore, must have been spent by Jacob between Sukkoth, where he abode some time, and the neighborhood of Shekerm, where he had purchased a piece of ground. If we suppose Dinah to have been born in the same year with Joseph, who was in his seventeenth year at the time of his being sold as a bondslave Genesis 37:2, the events of this chapter must have occurred in the interval between the completion of her twelfth and that of her sixteenth year. “Shekem.” This name is hereditary in the family, and had taken hold in the locality before the time of Abraham. The Hivite was a descendant of Kenaan. We find this tribe now occupying the district where the Kenaanite was in possession at a former period Genesis 12:6. “Spake to the heart of the damsel.” After having robbed her of her honor, he promises to recognize her as his wife, provided he can gain the consent of her relatives. “Shekem spake unto his father Hamor.” He is in earnest about this matter. “Jacob held his peace.” He was a stranger in the land, and surrounded by a flourishing tribe, who were evidently unscrupulous in their conduct.
Genesis 34:6-17
A conference takes place between the parties. Hamer and Jacob, the parents on both sides, are the principals in the negotiation. The sons of Jacob, being brothers of the injured damsel, are present, according to custom. “Wrought fully in Israel;” a standing phrase from this time forward for any deed that was contrary to the sanctity which ought to characterize God’s holy people. Israel is used here to designate the descendants of Israel, the special people. Hamer makes his proposal. “Shekem, my son.” These words are a nominative pendent, for which “his soul” is substituted. He proposes a political alliance or amalgamation of the two tribes, to be sealed and actually effected by intermarriage. He offers to make them joint-possessors of the soil, and of the rights of dwelling, trading, and acquiring property. Shekem now speaks with becoming deference and earnestness.
He offers any amount of dowry, or bridal presents, and of gift to the mother and brothers of the bride. It must be acknowledged that the father and the son were disposed to make whatever amends they could for the grievous offence that had been committed. The sons of Jacob answer with deceit. They are burning with resentment of the wrong that “ought not to have been done,” and that cannot now be fully repaired. Yet they are in presence of a superior force, and therefore, resort to deceit. “And spake.” This goes along with the previous verb “answered,” and is meant to have the same qualification “with deceit.” The last clause of the verse then assigns the cause of this deceitful dealing. Their speech, for the matter of it, is reasonable. They cannot intermarry with the uncircumcised. Only on condition that every male be circumcised will they consent. On these terms they promise to “become one people” with them. Otherwise they take their daughter, and depart. Our daughter. They here speak as a family or race, and therefore, call Dinah their daughter, though her brothers are the speakers.
Genesis 34:18-24
Hamor and Shekem accept the terms, and immediately proceed to carry them into effect. It is testified of Shekem, that he delayed not to do the thing, and that he was more honorable than all his house. They bring the matter before their fellow-citizens, and urge them to adopt the rite of circumcision, on the ground that the men are peaceable, well-conducted, and they and their cattle and goods would be a valuable addition to the common wealth of their tribe. Hence, it appears that the population was still thin, that the neighboring territory was sufficient for a much larger number than its present occupants, and that a tribe found a real benefit in an accession to his numbers. The people were persuaded to comply with the terms proposed. There is nothing said here of the religious import of the rite, or of any diversity of worship that may have existed between the two parties. But it is not improbable that the Shekemites were prepared for mutual toleration, or even for the adoption of the religion of Israel in its external forms, though not perhaps to the exclusion of their own hereditary customs. It is also possible that the formal acknowledgment of the one true God was not yet extinct. Circumcision has been in use among the Egyptians, Colchians (Herodotus ii. 104), and other eastern nations; but when and how introduced we are not informed. The present narrative points out one way in which it may have spread from nation to nation.
Genesis 34:25-31
Simon and Levi, at the head no doubt of all their father’s men, now fall upon the Shekemites, when feverish with the circumcision, and put them to the sword. Simon and Levi were the sons of Leah, and therefore, full brothers of Dinah. If Dinah was of the same year as Joseph, they would be respectively seven and six years older than she was. If she was in her thirteenth year, they would therefore, be respectively in their twentieth and nineteenth years, and therefore, suited by age and passion for such an enterprise. All the sons of Jacob joined in the sacking of the city. They seized all their cattle and goods, and made captives of their wives and little ones. Jacob is greatly distressed by this outrage, which is equally contrary to his policy and his humanity. He sets before his sons, in this expostulation, the danger attendant upon such a proceeding. The “Kenaanite and the Perizzite,” whom Abraham found in the land on his return from Egypt Genesis 13:7. “I am a few men” - men of number that might easily be counted. I here denotes the family or tribe with all its dependents. When expanded, therefore, it is, “I and my house.” Simon and Levi have their reply. It justifies the retribution which has fallen on the Shekemites for this and all their other crimes. But it does not justify the executioners for taking the law into their own hands, or proceeding by fraud and indiscriminate slaughter. The employment of circumcision, too, which was the sign of the covenant of grace, as a means of deception, was a heinous aggravation of their offence.
