Genesis 34:16

16 Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take for ourselves your daughters, and we will live with you and become one family.

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 And they said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who [is] uncircumcised, for that [is] a disgrace for us.

15 Only on this [condition] will we give consent to you; if you will become like us--every male among you to be circumcised.

16 Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take for ourselves your daughters, and we will live with you and become one family.

17 But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our daughters and we will go."

18 And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and in the eyes of Shechem, the son of Hamor.