Genesis 34:9
New International Version
Intermarry with us; give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.

New Living Translation
In fact, let’s arrange other marriages, too. You give us your daughters for our sons, and we will give you our daughters for your sons.

English Standard Version
Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

Berean Standard Bible
Intermarry with us; give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves.

King James Bible
And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

New King James Version
And make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to yourselves.

New American Standard Bible
And intermarry with us; give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves.

NASB 1995
“Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves.

NASB 1977
“And intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

Legacy Standard Bible
And intermarry with us; give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves.

Amplified Bible
And [beyond that] intermarry with us; give your daughters to us [as wives] and take our daughters for yourselves.

Christian Standard Bible
Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

American Standard Version
And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And be married with us; give your daughter to us and take our daughters to yourselves.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and intermarry with us. Give us your daughters, and take our daughters for your sons.

Contemporary English Version
Why don't you start letting your families marry into our families and ours marry into yours?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And let us contract marriages one with another: give us your daughters and take you our daughters,

English Revised Version
And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take ours for yourselves.

Good News Translation
Let us make an agreement that there will be intermarriage between our people and yours.

International Standard Version
Intermarry with us. Give your daughters to us and take our sons for yourselves.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

Literal Standard Version
and join in marriage with us; you give your daughters to us, and you take our daughters for yourselves,

Majority Standard Bible
Intermarry with us; give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves.

New American Bible
Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

NET Bible
Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.

New Revised Standard Version
Make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

New Heart English Bible
Arrange marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

Webster's Bible Translation
And make ye marriages with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you.

World English Bible
Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

Young's Literal Translation
and join ye in marriage with us; your daughters ye give to us, and our daughters ye take to yourselves,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Defiling of Dinah
8But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife. 9Intermarry with us; give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves. 10You may settle among us, and the land will be open to you. Live here, move about freely, and acquire your own property.”…

Cross References
Genesis 34:8
But Hamor said to them, "My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.

Genesis 34:10
You may settle among us, and the land will be open to you. Live here, move about freely, and acquire your own property."

Deuteronomy 7:3
Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

Ezra 9:14
shall we again break Your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who commit these abominations? Would You not become so angry with us as to wipe us out, leaving no remnant or survivor?


Treasury of Scripture

And make you marriages with us, and give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you.

Genesis 6:2
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

Genesis 19:14
And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

Genesis 24:3
And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

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Genesis 34
1. Dinah is ravished by Shechem.
4. He requests to marry her.
13. The sons of Jacob offer the condition of circumcision to the Shechemites.
20. Hamor and Shechem persuade them to accept it.
25. The sons of Jacob upon that advantage slay them, and spoil their city.
30. Jacob reproves Simeon and Levi.
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Intermarry with us;
וְהִֽתְחַתְּנ֖וּ (wə·hiṯ·ḥat·tə·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 2859: To give, away in marriage, to contract affinity by marriage

give
תִּתְּנוּ־ (tit·tə·nū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

us
לָ֔נוּ (lā·nū)
Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew

your daughters,
בְּנֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ (bə·nō·ṯê·ḵem)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 1323: A daughter

and take
תִּקְח֥וּ (tiq·ḥū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 3947: To take

our daughters
בְּנֹתֵ֖ינוּ (bə·nō·ṯê·nū)
Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's 1323: A daughter

for yourselves.
לָכֶֽם׃ (lā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew


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