Verse 21
Genesis 34:21
World English Bible, British Edition
21
“These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land
and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives,
and let’s give them our daughters.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הָ/אֲנָשִׁ֨ים הָ/אֵ֜לֶּה שְֽׁלֵמִ֧ים הֵ֣ם אִתָּ֗/נוּ וְ/יֵשְׁב֤וּ בָ/אָ֨רֶץ֙ וְ/יִסְחֲר֣וּ אֹתָ֔/הּ וְ/הָ/אָ֛רֶץ הִנֵּ֥ה רַֽחֲבַת יָדַ֖יִם לִ/פְנֵי/הֶ֑ם אֶת בְּנֹתָ/ם֙ נִקַּֽח לָ֣/נוּ לְ/נָשִׁ֔ים וְ/אֶת בְּנֹתֵ֖י/נוּ נִתֵּ֥ן לָ/הֶֽם
English Translation
The men are complete with us, and they will dwell in the land and trade it, and the land is wide before them; we will take their daughters for us as wives, and we will give our daughters to them.
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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...
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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...
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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