Genesis 34:21
These men are peaceable with vs, and will dwell in the lande and occupye: now is the londe brode of both the sydes, we wyl take their doughters vnto vs, and geue them oure doughters.
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- Gen 34:6-2015 verses89%
6Then Hemor the father of Sichem wente forth vnto Iacob to comen with him.
7In the meane season came Iacobs sonnes from ye felde. And whan they herde it, it greued the men, and they were very wroth, that he had wrought foly in Israel, and lyen with Iacobs doughter: for so was not the vse to do.
8Then comened Hemor with the, and sayde: My sonne Sichems hert longeth for youre doughter, O geue hir him to wife:
9make frendshipe with vs, geue vs youre doughters, and take ye oure doughters,
10and dwell with vs, the londe shall be open vnto you, dwell and occupie, and haue youre possessions therin.
11And Sichem sayde vnto hir father and brethren: Let me fynde grace with you: loke what ye appoynte me, I will geue it:
12requyre the dowrye and gift of me hardely, I wyll geue it acordinge as ye wyll axe, onely geue me the damsell to wife.
13Then Iacobs sonnes answered Sichem and Hemor his father (and spake disceatfully, because their sister Dina was defyled)
14& sayde vnto them: That can we not do, to geue oure sister to an vncircumcided man: for that were a shame vnto vs.
15Neuertheles we wyll consente vnto you, yf ye wylbe like vnto vs, and be circumcided as many as are males amonge you:
16then will we geue you oure doughters, and take youre doughters vnto vs, and dwell with you, and be one people.
17But yf ye wyll not herken vnto vs, to be circumcided, then wyl we take oure doughter, and go oure waye.
18These wordes pleased Hemor and his sonne wel,
19and the yonge man deferde not to do the same, for he had lust to Iacobs doughter: and he was holden in honoure aboue all in his fathers house.
20Then came Hemor and Sichem his sonne vnder ye gate of cite, and comened with the citisens of the cite, and saide:
- Gen 34:22-243 verses84%
22But then wyll they consent vnto vs, to dwell by vs, and to be one people with vs, yf we circumcyse all the men children amonge vs, like as they are circumcysed:
23their catell and goodes, and all that they haue, shalbe ours, yf we consent vnto them, that they maye dwel with vs.
24And they herkened vnto Hemor and Sichem his sonne, as many as wente out and in at ye gate of his cite, and circumcided all the males, that wente out and in at his cite.
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4and spake to his father Hemor: Get me this mayden to wife.
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2Whan Sichem the sonne of Hemor the Heuite (which was lorde of the lode) sawe her, he toke her, and laye with her, and forced her,
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22As for their fathers and brethren, whan they come to lawe with vs, we wyll saye vnto them: Be fauourable to them, for they haue not taken the in battaill: but ye gaue the not vnto them by time, and it is youre faute.
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26and slew Hemor also and Sichem his sonne with the edge of the swerde, and toke their sister Dina out of Sichems house, and wente their waye.
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7How wyll we do that the remnaunt maye haue wyues? For we haue sworne by the LORDE, that we wyl not geue the wyues of oure doughters.
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6they toke their doughters to wyues, & gaue their doughters vnto their sonnes, & serued their goddes,
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30and that we wolde not geue oure doughters vnto the people in the lode, nether to take their doughters for oure sonnes.