Genesis 34:16

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Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters for ourselves; we will dwell among you and become one people.

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  • Gen 34:14-15
    2 verses
    88%

    14They said to them, "We cannot do this thing—to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.

    15However, we will agree to you on one condition: if you become like us by every male among you being circumcised.

  • Gen 34:21-23
    3 verses
    87%

    21"These men are at peace with us. Let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for the land is spacious enough for them. Let us take their daughters as wives, and let us give them our daughters.

    22Only on this condition will the men agree to live with us and become one people: every male among us must be circumcised, just as they are.

    23Won't their livestock, their property, and all their animals be ours? Only let us agree to them, and they will dwell with us."

  • Gen 34:17-18
    2 verses
    86%

    17But if you will not listen to us and get circumcised, we will take our daughter and leave.

    18Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.

  • Gen 34:8-12
    5 verses
    84%

    8Hamor spoke with them, saying, "My son Shechem has set his heart on your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

    9Make marriages with us: give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves.

    10You can dwell with us, and the land will be open to you: live, trade in it, and acquire property here.

    11Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you ask of me, I will give.

    12Set the bride price and gift as high as you like, and I will pay whatever you ask me; just give me the young woman as a wife."

  • Neh 10:30
    77%

    30joined together with their relatives and nobles, committing themselves with a curse and an oath to follow the Law of God, given through Moses, the servant of God, and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations, and decrees of the LORD our Lord.

  • Judg 21:7
    74%

    7'What can we do for the survivors to provide wives, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters?'

  • Exod 34:16
    74%

    16And when you take some of their daughters as wives for your sons, their daughters will lead your sons to prostitute themselves to their gods.

  • Judg 3:6
    72%

    6They took the daughters of these peoples as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to the sons of these peoples, and worshiped their gods.

  • Judg 21:22
    72%

    22'When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will say to them, "Do us a favor by allowing them to have these wives, for we did not obtain wives for them during the battle. And you did not give your daughters to them, so you are not guilty of breaking your oath."'

  • Num 32:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16Then they approached him and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our children.

    17But we will arm ourselves quickly and go before the Israelites until we bring them to their place. Meanwhile our children will stay in fortified cities, safe from the inhabitants of the land.

  • Gen 34:4
    71%

    4Shechem said to his father Hamor, "Get me this girl as my wife."

  • Gen 24:37-38
    2 verses
    71%

    37My master made me swear an oath, saying, 'You must not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live.

    38Instead, you must go to my father's household and to my family to take a wife for my son.'

  • Num 36:8
    71%

    8'Every daughter who inherits land from the tribes of Israel must marry within a clan of her father’s tribe, so that every Israelite may retain the inheritance of their ancestors.'

  • Ezra 9:12
    71%

    12So now, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Do not seek their peace or prosperity forever, so that you may be strong, eat the good things of the land, and leave it to your children as an inheritance forever.

  • Judg 21:18
    70%

    18'But we cannot give them wives from our own daughters, for we have sworn with a curse that anyone who gives a wife to Benjamin will be cursed.'

  • Josh 2:14
    70%

    14The men said to her, "Our lives for your lives! If you don't tell what we are doing, we will treat you kindly and faithfully when the LORD gives us the land."

  • Jer 29:6
    70%

    6Take wives and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage so they may have sons and daughters. Multiply there, and do not decrease.

  • Gen 31:44
    70%

    44Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.'

  • Gen 24:3
    70%

    3I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living.

  • Gen 31:16
    70%

    16Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you to do.'

  • Neh 13:25
    70%

    25So I confronted them, cursed them, struck some of them, pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God: 'You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or yourselves.'

  • Josh 9:11
    70%

    11So our elders and all the inhabitants of our land told us, ‘Take provisions for the journey and go to meet them. Tell them: We are your servants; now make a treaty with us.’

  • Gen 31:50
    70%

    50If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.'

  • Gen 17:11
    70%

    11You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it will be the sign of the covenant between Me and you.

  • Josh 9:20
    70%

    20This is what we will do to them: We will let them live so that no wrath will fall on us for breaking the oath we swore to them.

  • Josh 23:12
    69%

    12But if you turn away and ally yourselves with the survivors of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry with them and associate with them,