Genesis 34:16

World English Bible (2000)

then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

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  • Gen 34:14-15
    2 verses
    88%

    14and 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.

    15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

  • Gen 34:21-23
    3 verses
    87%

    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.

    22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.

    23Won'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."

  • Gen 34:17-18
    2 verses
    86%

    17But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone."

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

  • Gen 34:8-12
    5 verses
    84%

    8Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for 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 shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."

    11Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.

    12Ask 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."

  • Neh 10:30
    77%

    30and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

  • Judg 21:7
    74%

    7How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?"

  • Exod 34:16
    74%

    16and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

  • Judg 3:6
    72%

    6and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

  • Judg 21:22
    72%

    22It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, 'Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, otherwise you would now be guilty.'"

  • Num 32:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16They came near to him, and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones:

    17but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

  • Gen 34:4
    71%

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

  • Gen 24:37-38
    2 verses
    71%

    37My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,

    38but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'

  • Num 36:8
    71%

    8Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.

  • Ezra 9:12
    71%

    12Now therefore don't give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.'

  • Judg 21:18
    70%

    18However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, 'Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.'"

  • Josh 2:14
    70%

    14The men said to her, "Our life for yours, if you don't talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you."

  • Jer 29:6
    70%

    6Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and don't be diminished.

  • Gen 31:44
    70%

    44Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."

  • Gen 24:3
    70%

    3I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

  • Gen 31:16
    70%

    16For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."

  • Neh 13:25
    70%

    25I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], "You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

  • Josh 9:11
    70%

    11Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, 'Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, "We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us."'

  • Gen 31:50
    70%

    50If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."

  • Gen 17:11
    70%

    11You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

  • Josh 9:20
    70%

    20This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them."

  • Josh 23:12
    69%

    12"But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;