Genesis - 34:16



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.

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 34:16.

Differing Translations

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Then will we mutually give and take your daughters, and ours: and we will dwell with you, and will be one people:
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;
Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to us and go on living with you as one people.
Then we will mutually give and receive your daughters as well as ours; and we will live with you, and we will become one people.
Et dabimus filias nostras vobis, et filias vestras capiemus nobis: et habitabimus vobiscum, et erimus in populum unum.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Then will we give our daughters unto you,.... Meaning Dinah, whom they call their daughter, Genesis 34:17; because she was the daughter of their family, and because they were entreating in the name of their father, and in conformity to the language used by those they were treating with, Genesis 34:9,
and we will take your daughters to us; in marriage for wives:
and we will dwell with you; not as sojourners but as fellow citizens:
and we will become one people; being so nearly related by marriage, and professing one religion, alike submitting to circumcision, which was the distinguished badge of Abraham's seed.

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