Genesis 34:11

World English Bible (2000)

Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.

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  • Gen 33:15 : 15 Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."
  • Gen 18:3 : 3 and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.

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  • Gen 34:12-14
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    89%

    12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."

    13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

    14 and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.

  • Gen 34:2-4
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    84%

    2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.

    3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

    4 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife."

  • Gen 34:6-10
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    84%

    6 Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.

    7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; a which thing ought not to be done.

    8 Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

    9 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

    10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."

  • Gen 34:17-21
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    17 But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone."

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

    19 The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.

    20 Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,

    21 "These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

  • Gen 34:23-24
    2 verses
    74%

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

    24 All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

  • Gen 33:19
    73%

    19 He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.

  • Gen 38:16
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    16 He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"

  • Gen 30:31
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    31 He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

  • Gen 34:26
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    26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.