Genesis 34:10

10 et habitate nobiscum terra in potestate vestra est exercete negotiamini et possidete eam

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 locutus est itaque Emor ad eos Sychem filii mei adhesit anima filiae vestrae date eam illi uxorem

9 et iungamus vicissim conubia filias vestras tradite nobis et filias nostras accipite

10 et habitate nobiscum terra in potestate vestra est exercete negotiamini et possidete eam

11 sed et Sychem ad patrem et ad fratres eius ait inveniam gratiam coram vobis et quaecumque statueritis dabo

12 augete dotem munera postulate libens tribuam quod petieritis tantum date mihi puellam hanc uxorem