Verse 18
Genesis 34:18
Literal Standard Version
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And their words are good in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shechem, Hamor’s son;
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּֽיטְב֥וּ דִבְרֵי/הֶ֖ם בְּ/עֵינֵ֣י חֲמ֑וֹר וּ/בְ/עֵינֵ֖י שְׁכֶ֥ם בֶּן חֲמֽוֹר
English Translation
And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and in the eyes of Shechem son of Hamor.
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Chapter 34 Context
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And Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she has borne to Jacob, goes out to look on the daughters of the l...
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and Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, sees her, and takes her, and lies with h...
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and his soul cleaves to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and he loves the young person, and speaks to the h...
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And Shechem speaks to his father Hamor, saying, “Take for me this girl for a wife.”
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And Jacob has heard that he has defiled his daughter Dinah, and his sons were with his livestock in...
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And Hamor, father of Shechem, goes out to 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 speaks with them, saying, “Shechem, my son, his soul has cleaved to your daughter; please...
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and join in marriage with us; you give your daughters to us, and you take our daughters for yourselv...
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and you dwell with us, and the land is before you; dwell and trade in it, and have possessions in it...
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And Shechem says to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find grace in your eyes, and that which...
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multiply on me dowry and gift exceedingly, and I give as you say to me, and give to me the young per...
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And the sons of Jacob answer Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, and they speak (because he de...
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and say to them, “We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to one who has a foreskin, fo...
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Only for this we consent to you: if you are as we, to have every male of you circumcised,
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then we have given our daughters to you, and we take your daughters for ourselves, and we have dwelt...
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and if you do not listen to 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 did not delay to do the thing, for he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he is h...
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And Hamor comes—his son Shechem also—to the gate of their city, and they speak to the men of their c...
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“These men are peaceable with us; then let them dwell in the land, and trade in it; and the land, be...
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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 livestock, and their substance, and all their beasts—are they not ours? Only let us consent to...
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And to Hamor, and to his son Shechem, do all those going out of the gate of his city listen, and eve...
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And it comes to pass, on the third day, in their being pained, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon...
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and Hamor, and his son Shechem, 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 on the wounded, and they spoil the city, because they had defiled their si...
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their flock and their herd, and their donkeys, and that which is in the city, and that which is in t...
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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 says to Simeon and to Levi, “You have troubled me, by causing me to stink among the inhabi...
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And they say, “Does he make our sister as a harlot?”
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