Verse 9
Genesis 34:9
Bible in Basic English
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And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/הִֽתְחַתְּנ֖וּ אֹתָ֑/נוּ בְּנֹֽתֵי/כֶם֙ תִּתְּנוּ לָ֔/נוּ וְ/אֶת בְּנֹתֵ֖י/נוּ תִּקְח֥וּ לָ/כֶֽם
English Translation
And you will give us your daughters in marriage, and you will take our daughters for yourselves.
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Chapter 34 Context
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Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had by Jacob, went out to see the women of that country.
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And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw her, he took her b...
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Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her...
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And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.
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Now Jacob had word of what Shechem had done to his daughter; but his sons were in the fields with th...
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Then Hamor, the father of Shechem, came out to have a talk with Jacob.
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Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they were wounded and ve...
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But Hamor said to them, Shechem, my son, is full of desire for your daughter: will you then give her...
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And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yo...
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Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.
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And Shechem said to her father and her brothers, If you will give ear to my request, whatever you sa...
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However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my...
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But the sons of Jacob gave a false answer to Shechem and Hamor his father, because of what had been...
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And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for...
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But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes li...
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Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to us and go on living with you as on...
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But if you will not undergo circumcision as we say, then we will take our daughter and go.
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And their words were pleasing to Hamor and his son Shechem.
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And without loss of time the young man did as they said, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter,...
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Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the...
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It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and...
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But these men will make an agreement with us to go on living with us and to become one people, only...
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Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreem...
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Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in t...
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But on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi,...
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And Hamor and his son they put to death with the sword, and they took Dinah from Shechem's house and...
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And the sons of Jacob came on them when they were wounded and made waste the town because of what ha...
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They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their town and in their fie...
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And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took...
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And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the pe...
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But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?
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