Genesis 34:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

then we have given our daughters to you, and your daughters we take to ourselves, and we have dwelt with you, and have become one people;

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  • Gen 34:14-15
    2 verses
    88%

    14 and say unto them, `We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to one who hath a foreskin: for it `is' a reproach to us.

    15 `Only for this we consent to you; if ye be as we, to have every male of you circumcised,

  • Gen 34:21-23
    3 verses
    87%

    21 `These men are peaceable with us; then let them dwell in the land, and trade `in' it; and the land, lo, `is' wide before them; their daughters let us take to ourselves for wives, and our daughters give to them.

    22 `Only for this do the men consent to us, to dwell with us, to become one people, in every male of us being circumcised, as they are circumcised;

    23 their cattle, and their substance, and all their beasts -- are they not ours? only let us consent to them, and they dwell with us.'

  • Gen 34:17-18
    2 verses
    86%

    17 and if ye hearken not unto us to be circumcised, then we have taken our daughter, and have gone.'

    18 And their words are good in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shechem, Hamor's son;

  • Gen 34:8-12
    5 verses
    84%

    8 And Hamor speaketh with them, saying, `Shechem, my son, his soul hath cleaved to your daughter; give her, I pray you, to him for a wife,

    9 and join ye in marriage with us; your daughters ye give to us, and our daughters ye take to yourselves,

    10 and with us ye dwell, and the land is before you; dwell ye and trade `in' it, and have possessions in it.'

    11 And Shechem saith unto her father, and unto her brethren, `Let me find grace in your eyes, and that which ye say unto me, I give;

    12 multiply on me exceedingly dowry and gift, and I give as ye say unto me, and give to me the young person for a wife.'

  • 30 and that we give not our daughters to the peoples of the land, and their daughters we take not to our sons;

  • 7 what do we do for them -- for those who are left -- for wives, and we -- we have sworn by Jehovah not to give to them of our daughters for wives?'

  • 16 and thou hast taken of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have caused thy sons to go a-whoring after their gods;

  • 6 and take their daughters to them for wives, and their daughters have given to their sons, and they serve their gods;

  • 22 and it hath been, when their fathers or their brethren come in to plead unto us, that we have said unto them, Favour us `by' them, for we have not taken `to' each his wife in battle, for ye -- ye have not given to them at this time `that' ye are guilty.'

  • Num 32:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16 And they come nigh unto him, and say, `Folds for the flock we build for our cattle here, and cities for our infants;

    17 and we -- we are armed hasting before the sons of Israel till that we have brought them in unto their place; and our infants have dwelt in the cities of defence because of the inhabitants of the land;

  • 4 And Shechem speaketh unto Hamor his father, saying, `Take for me this damsel for a wife.'

  • Gen 24:37-38
    2 verses
    71%

    37 `And my lord causeth me to swear, saying, Thou dost not take a wife to my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in whose land I am dwelling.

    38 If not -- unto the house of my father thou dost go, and unto my family, and thou hast taken a wife for my son.

  • 8 `And every daughter possessing an inheritance, of the tribes of the sons of Israel, is to one of the family of the tribe of her father for a wife, so that the sons of Israel possess each the inheritance of his fathers,

  • 12 and now, your daughters ye do not give to their sons, and their daughters ye do not take to your sons, and ye do not seek their peace, and their good -- unto the age, so that ye are strong, and have eaten the good of the land, and given possession to your sons unto the age.

  • 18 and we -- we are not able to give to them wives out of our daughters, for the sons of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed `is' he who is giving a wife to Benjamin.'

  • 14 And the men say to her, `Our soul for yours -- to die; if ye declare not this our matter, then it hath been, in Jehovah's giving to us this land, that we have done with thee kindness and truth.'

  • 6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take for your sons wives, and your daughters give to husbands, and they bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and ye are not few;

  • 44 and now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and it hath been for a witness between me and thee.'

  • 3 and I cause thee to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens, and God of the earth, that thou dost not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in the midst of whom I am dwelling;

  • 16 for all the wealth which God hath taken away from our father, it `is' ours, and our children's; and now, all that God hath said unto thee -- do.'

  • 25 And I strive with them, and declare them vile, and smite certain of them, and pluck off their hair, and cause them to swear by God, `Ye do not give your daughters to their sons, nor do ye take of their daughters to your sons, and to yourselves.

  • 11 `And our elders, and all the inhabitants of our land speak unto us, saying, Take in your hand provision for the way, and go to meet them, and ye have said unto them, Your servants we `are', and now, make with us a covenant;

  • 50 if thou afflict my daughters, or take wives beside my daughters -- there is no man with us -- see, God `is' witness between me and thee.'

  • 11 and ye have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it hath become a token of a covenant between Me and you.

  • 20 this we do to them, and have kept them alive, and wrath is not upon us, because of the oath which we have sworn to them.'

  • 12 `But -- if ye at all turn back and have cleaved to the remnant of these nations, these who are left with you, and intermarried with them, and gone in to them, and they to you,