Genesis 34:9

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 7:3 : 3 neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.
  • Gen 6:2 : 2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
  • Gen 19:14 : 14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
  • Gen 24:3 : 3 I 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 26:34-35 : 34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite. 35 They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.
  • Gen 27:46 : 46 Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 34:10-23
    14 verses
    89%

    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,

    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.

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

    16 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.

    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.

    22 Only 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.

    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."

  • Gen 34:6-8
    3 verses
    89%

    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.

  • Gen 34:2-4
    3 verses
    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."

  • Judg 3:6
    75%

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

  • Exod 34:16
    74%

    16 and 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.

  • Gen 24:38
    74%

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

  • Gen 34:26
    73%

    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.

  • Jer 29:6
    73%

    6 Take 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.

  • Neh 10:30
    73%

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

  • Ezra 9:12
    73%

    12 Now 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.'