Genesis 34:4

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Judg 14:2 : 2 He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, "I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as wife."
  • 2 Sam 13:13 : 13 I, where would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you."
  • Gen 21:21 : 21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

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  • Gen 34:5-13
    9 verses
    90%

    5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.

    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."

    11 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.

    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,

  • Gen 34:1-3
    3 verses
    88%

    1 Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

    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.

  • Gen 34:17-21
    5 verses
    84%

    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 34:26-27
    2 verses
    82%

    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.

    27 Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

  • Gen 34:24
    78%

    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.