Verse 8
Genesis 34:8
World English Bible, British Edition
8
Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for
your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יְדַבֵּ֥ר חֲמ֖וֹר אִתָּ֣/ם לֵ/אמֹ֑ר שְׁכֶ֣ם בְּנִ֗/י חָֽשְׁקָ֤ה נַפְשׁ/וֹ֙ בְּ/בִתְּ/כֶ֔ם תְּנ֨וּ נָ֥א אֹתָ֛/הּ ל֖/וֹ לְ/אִשָּֽׁה
English Translation
And the donkey spoke to them, saying, "Shechem the son of Hamor has desired your daughter; please give her to him as a wife."
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Chapter 34 Context
1
Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the
daughters of the land.
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2
Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her.
He took her, lay with her, and...
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3
His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young
lady, and spoke kindly to th...
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4
Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as
a wife.”
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5
Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his
sons were with his livestock in the...
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6
Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.
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7
The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men
were grieved, and they were ver...
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8
Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for
your daughter. Please give h...
9
Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters
for yourselves.
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10
You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and
trade in it, and get possessions...
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11
Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find
favour in your eyes, and whatever you w...
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12
Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask
of me, but give me the young lad...
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13
The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with
deceit when they spoke, because he had...
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14
and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one
who is uncircumcised; for that...
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15
Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we
are, that every male of you be c...
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16
then will we give our daughters to you; and we will take your daughters
to us, and we will dwell wit...
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17
But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take
our sister, and we will be go...
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18
Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.
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19
The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight
in Jacob’s daughter, and he was h...
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20
Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked
with the men of their city, s...
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21
“These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land
and trade in it. For behold, th...
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22
Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us,
to become one people, if every ma...
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23
Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be
ours? Only let’s give our conse...
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24
All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor,
and to Shechem his son; and every male w...
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25
On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon
and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each...
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26
They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword,
and took Dinah out of Shechem’s...
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27
Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they
had defiled their sister.
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28
They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was
in the city, that which was in th...
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29
and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their
wives, and took as plunder e...
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30
Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious
to the inhabitants of the la...
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31
They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”
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