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Genesis 34:16

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16 Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We’ll settle among you and become one people with you.
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Genesis 34:16 in Other Translations

KJV
16 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
ESV
16 Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people.
NLT
16 then we will give you our daughters, and we’ll take your daughters for ourselves. We will live among you and become one people.
MSG
16 Then we will freely exchange daughters in marriage and make ourselves at home among you and become one big, happy family.
CSB
16 Then we will give you our daughters, take your daughters for ourselves, live with you, and become one people.

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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Genesis 34:16 In-Context

14 They said to them, “We can’t do such a thing; we can’t give our sister to a man who is not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us.
15 We will enter into an agreement with you on one condition only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males.
16 Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We’ll settle among you and become one people with you.
17 But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we’ll take our sister and go.”
18 Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.

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