◄ Genesis 34:4 ►
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Good News Translation
He told his father, "I want you to get Dinah for me as my wife."

New Revised Standard Version
So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl to be my wife.”

Contemporary English Version
Shechem even asked his father to arrange for him to marry her.

New American Bible
Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this young woman for a wife.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And going to Hemor his father, he said: Get me this damsel to wife.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And going to Hemor his father, he said: Get me this damsel to wife.

Genesis 21:21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

Judges 14:2 He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying: I saw a woman in Thamnatha of the daughters of the Philistines: I beseech you, take her for me to wife.

2 Samuel 13:13 For I shall not be able to bear my shame, and thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel: but rather speak to the king, and he will not deny me to thee.

Context
The Defiling of Dinah
…3And his soul was fast knit unto her; and whereas she was sad, he comforted her with sweet words. 4And going to Hemor his father, he said: Get me this damsel to wife.5But when Jacob had heard this, his sons being absent, and employed in feeding the cattle, he held his peace till they came back.…
Cross References
Genesis 34:3
And his soul was fast knit unto her; and whereas she was sad, he comforted her with sweet words.

Genesis 34:5
But when Jacob had heard this, his sons being absent, and employed in feeding the cattle, he held his peace till they came back.

Judges 14:2
He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying: I saw a woman in Thamnatha of the daughters of the Philistines: I beseech you, take her for me to wife.

Genesis 34:3
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