Verse 8
Genesis 34:8
Young's Literal Translation
8
And Hamor speaketh with them, saying, 'Shechem, my son, his soul hath cleaved to your daughter; give her, I pray you, to him for 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
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And Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she hath borne to Jacob, goeth out to look on the daughters of the...
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and Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, seeth her, and taketh her, and lieth wit...
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and his soul cleaveth to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and he loveth the young person, and speaketh unto...
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And Shechem speaketh unto Hamor his father, saying, 'Take for me this damsel for a wife.'
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And Jacob hath heard that he hath defiled Dinah his daughter, and his sons were with his cattle in t...
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And Hamor, father of Shechem, goeth out unto Jacob to speak with him;
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and the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard, and the men grieve themselves, and it...
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And Hamor speaketh with them, saying, 'Shechem, my son, his soul hath cleaved to your daughter; give...
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and join ye in marriage with us; your daughters ye give to us, and our daughters ye take to yourselv...
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and with us ye dwell, and the land is before you; dwell ye and trade [in] it, and have possessions i...
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And Shechem saith unto her father, and unto her brethren, 'Let me find grace in your eyes, and that...
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multiply on me exceedingly dowry and gift, and I give as ye say unto me, and give to me the young pe...
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And the sons of Jacob answer Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and they speak (because he de...
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and say unto them, 'We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to one who hath a foreskin:...
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'Only for this we consent to you; if ye be as we, to have every male of you circumcised,
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then we have given our daughters to you, and your daughters we take to ourselves, and we have dwelt...
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and if ye hearken not unto us to be circumcised, then we have taken our daughter, and have gone.'
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And their words are good in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shechem, Hamor's son;
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and the young man delayed not to do the thing, for he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he is hon...
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And Hamor cometh -- Shechem his son also -- unto the gate of their city, and they speak unto the men...
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'These men are peaceable with us; then let them dwell in the land, and trade [in] it; and the land,...
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'Only for this do the men consent to us, to dwell with us, to become one people, in every male of us...
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their cattle, and their substance, and all their beasts -- are they not ours? only let us consent to...
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And unto Hamor, and unto Shechem his son, hearken do all those going out of the gate of his city, an...
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And it cometh to pass, on the third day, in their being pained, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeo...
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and Hamor, and Shechem his son, they have slain by the mouth of the sword, and they take Dinah out o...
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Jacob's sons have come in upon the wounded, and they spoil the city, because they had defiled their...
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their flock and their herd, and their asses, and that which [is] in the city, and that which [is] in...
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and all their wealth, and all their infants, and their wives they have taken captive, and they spoil...
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And Jacob saith unto Simeon and unto Levi, 'Ye have troubled me, by causing me to stink among the in...
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And they say, 'As a harlot doth he make our sister?'
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