Genesis 34:16

16 Then we will agree to intermarriage. We will settle among you and become one people with you.

Genesis 34:16 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 34:16

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.

Genesis 34:16 In-Context

14 They said to him, "We cannot let our sister marry a man who is not circumcised; that would be a disgrace for us.

15 We can agree only on the condition that you become like us by circumcising all your males.

16 Then we will agree to intermarriage. We will settle among you and become one people with you.

17 But if you will not accept our terms and be circumcised, we will take her and leave."

18 These terms seemed fair to Hamor and his son Shechem,