Verse 9

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

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?"