Verse 12
Genesis 34:12
Geneva Bible
12
Aske of me abundantly both dowrie and giftes, and I will giue as ye appoint me, so that ye giue me the maide to wife.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הַרְבּ֨וּ עָלַ֤/י מְאֹד֙ מֹ֣הַר וּ/מַתָּ֔ן וְ/אֶ֨תְּנָ֔ה כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר תֹּאמְר֖וּ אֵלָ֑/י וּ/תְנוּ לִ֥/י אֶת הַֽ/נַּעֲרָ֖ לְ/אִשָּֽׁה
English Translation
Increase greatly upon me, and I will give as you say, and you will give to me the girl for a wife.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 34 Context
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Then Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare vnto Iaakob, went out to see the daughters of that c...
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Whome when Shechem the sonne of Hamor the Hiuite lorde of that countrey sawe, hee tooke her, and lay...
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So his heart claue vnto Dinah the daughter of Iaakob: and he loued the maide, and spake kindely vnto...
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Then said Shechem to his father Hamor, saying, Get me this maide to wife.
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(Nowe Iaakob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter, and his sonnes were with his cattell in t...
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Then Hamor the father of Shechem went out vnto Iaakob to commune with him.
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And whe the sonnes of Iaakob were come out of the fielde and heard it, it grieued the men, and they...
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And Hamor communed with them, saying, the soule of my sonne Shechem longeth for your daughter: giue...
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So make affinitie with vs: giue your daughters vnto vs, and take our daughters vnto you,
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And ye shall dwell with vs, and the lande shalbe before you: dwell, and doe your businesse in it, an...
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Shechem also said vnto her father and vnto her brethren, Let me finde fauour in your eyes, and I wil...
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12
Aske of me abundantly both dowrie and giftes, and I will giue as ye appoint me, so that ye giue me t...
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Then the sonnes of Iaakob answered Shechem and Hamor his father, talking deceitfully, because he had...
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And they said vnto them, We can not do this thing, to giue our sister to an vncircumcised man: for t...
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But in this will we consent vnto you, if ye will be as we are, that euery man childe among you be ci...
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Then will we giue our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to vs, and will dwell with y...
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But if ye will not hearken vnto vs to be circumcised, then will we take our daughter and depart.
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Nowe their wordes pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamors sonne.
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And the yong man deferd not to doe the thing because he loued Iaakobs daughter: he was also the most...
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Then Hamor and Shechem his Sonne went vnto the gate of their citie, and communed with the men of the...
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These men are peaceable with vs: and that they may dwell in the land, and doe their affaires therin...
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Onely herein will the men consent vnto vs for to dwell with vs, and to be one people, if all the men...
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Shall not their flockes and their substance and all their cattell be ours? onely let vs consent here...
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And vnto Hamor, and Shechem his sonne hearkened all that went out of the gate of his citie: and all...
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And on the thirde day (when they were sore) two of the sonnes of Iaakob, Simeon and Leui, Dinahs bre...
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They slewe also Hamor and Shechem his sonne with the edge of the sword, and tooke Dinah out of Shech...
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Againe the other sonnes of Iaakob came vpon the dead, and spoyled the citie, because they had defile...
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They tooke their sheepe and their beeues, and their asses, and whatsoeuer was in the citie, and in t...
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Also they caryed away captiue and spoyled all their goods, and all their children and their wiues, a...
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Then Iaakob said to Simeon and Leui, Ye haue troubled me, and made me stinke among the inhabitats of...
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And they answered, Shoulde hee abuse our sister as a whore?
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