Genesis 34:11

11 Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, "If you approve of me, tell me what you want, and I will give it to you.

Genesis 34:11 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 34:11

And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren
To the father and brethren of Dinah; he addressed them after his father Hamor had done speaking:

let me find grace in your eyes;
forgive the offence committed, the injury done to Dinah, and grant the request of her marriage, and it will be considered as a great favour:

and what ye shall say unto me, I will give;
to her, to her parents, to her brethren and relations; let what will be fixed, shall be given; which showed great affection for her, and that he was willing to do any thing to make amends for the injury done; he cared not what it was that might be demanded of him, so be it that she became his wife.

Genesis 34:11 In-Context

9 Arrange marriages with us: give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.

10 Live with us. The land is available to you: settle down, travel through it, and buy property in it."

11 Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, "If you approve of me, tell me what you want, and I will give it to you.

12 Make the bride price and marriage gifts as large as you like, and I will pay whatever you tell me. Then let me marry the young woman."

13 Jacob's sons responded deviously to Shechem and his father Hamor because Shechem defiled their sister Dinah.