Genesis 34:12
Good News Translation
Tell me what presents you want, and set the payment for the bride as high as you wish; I will give you whatever you ask, if you will only let me marry her."

New Revised Standard Version
Put the marriage present and gift as high as you like, and I will give whatever you ask me; only give me the girl to be my wife.”

Contemporary English Version
Ask anything, no matter how expensive. I'll do anything, just let me marry Dinah."

New American Bible
No matter how high you set the bridal price and gift, I will give you whatever you ask from me; only give me the young woman as a wife.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.

Ask me.

dowry.

Genesis 24:53 And bringing forth vessels of silver and gold, and garments, he gave them to Rebecca, for a present. He offered gifts also to her brothers, and to her mother.

Genesis 29:18 And Jacob being in love with her, said: I will serve thee seven years for Rachel, thy younger daughter.

Genesis 31:41 And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.

Exodus 22:16,17 If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he shall endow her, and have her to wife. . . .

Deuteronomy 22:28,29 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment: . . .

1 Samuel 18:25-27 And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to deliver David into the hands of the Philistines. . . .

2 Samuel 3:14 And David sent messengers to Isboseth the son of Saul, saying: Restore my wife Michol, whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

Hosea 3:2 And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a core of barley, and for half a core of barley.

Matthew 14:17 They answered him: We have not here, but five loaves, and two fishes.

Context
The Defiling of Dinah
11Sichem also said to her father and to her brethren: Let me find favour in your sight, and whatsoever you shall appoint I will give: 12Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.
Cross References
Genesis 34:11
Sichem also said to her father and to her brethren: Let me find favour in your sight, and whatsoever you shall appoint I will give:

Genesis 34:13
The sons of Jacob answered Sichem and his father deceitfully, being enraged at the deflowering of their sister:

Exodus 22:17
If the maid's father will not give her to him, he shall give money according to the dowry, which virgins are wont to receive.

1 Samuel 18:23
And the servants of Saul spoke all these words in the ear of David. And David said: Doth it seem to you a small matter to be the king's son in law? But I am a poor man, and of small ability.

1 Samuel 18:25
And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to deliver David into the hands of the Philistines.

Genesis 34:11
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