Genesis 34:10

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

Genesis 34:10 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 34:10

And ye shall dwell with us
. Peaceably and quietly, not as sojourners only, but as inhabitants:

and the land shall be before you;
to choose what part of it they pleased to dwell in, and which they should have in their own power and possession:

dwell and trade you therein;
in any sort of traffic and commerce the land would admit of, and they should best choose:

and get you possessions therein;
buy houses and land, and enjoy them, they and their posterity; these are the arguments used by Hamor to gain the consent of Jacob and his family that his son might marry Dinah; and the proposals are honourable and generous.

Genesis 34:10 In-Context

8 Hamor said to them, "My son Shechem's heart is set on your daughter. Please let him marry her.

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."