Genesis 34:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You may live among us, and the land will be open to you. Live in it, travel freely in it, and acquire property in it.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 13:9 : 9 Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go to the left, then I’ll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I’ll go to the left.”
  • Gen 20:15 : 15 Then Abimelech said,“Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please.”
  • Gen 42:34 : 34 But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know that you are honest men and not spies. Then I will give your brother back to you and you may move about freely in the land.’”
  • Gen 47:27 : 27 Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.
  • Gen 34:21-23 : 21 “These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry. 22 Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised. 23 If we do so, won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 34:8-9
    2 verses
    87%

    8But Hamor made this appeal to them:“My son Shechem is in love with your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.

    9Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.

  • Gen 34:20-23
    4 verses
    85%

    20So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city,

    21“These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry.

    22Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.

    23If we do so, won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”

  • Gen 34:11-13
    3 verses
    82%

    11Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers,“Let me find favor in your sight, and whatever you require of me I’ll give.

    12You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, and I’ll give whatever you ask of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!”

    13Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.

  • Gen 34:15-18
    4 verses
    80%

    15We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.

    16Then we will give you our daughters to marry, and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.

    17But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart.”

    18Their offer pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.

  • Gen 34:4
    77%

    4Shechem said to his father Hamor,“Acquire this young girl as my wife.”

  • Gen 20:15
    74%

    15Then Abimelech said,“Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please.”

  • Gen 33:19
    74%

    19Then he purchased the portion of the field where he had pitched his tent; he bought it from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of money.

  • Gen 34:2
    73%

    2When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who ruled that area, saw her, he grabbed her, forced himself on her, and sexually assaulted her.

  • Gen 45:10
    72%

    10You will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me– you, your children, your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and everything you have.

  • Gen 24:37-38
    2 verses
    72%

    37My master made me swear an oath. He said,‘You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

    38but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’

  • Josh 2:14
    71%

    14The men said to her,“If you die, may we die too! If you do not report what we’ve been up to, then, when the LORD hands the land over to us, we will show unswerving allegiance to you.”

  • Gen 31:16
    71%

    16Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

  • Num 33:53
    71%

    53You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.

  • Gen 26:3
    71%

    3Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.

  • Gen 28:4
    71%

    4May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”