Genesis 34:9
Good News Translation
Let us make an agreement that there will be intermarriage between our people and yours.

New Revised Standard Version
Make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

Contemporary English Version
Why don't you start letting your families marry into our families and ours marry into yours?

New American Bible
Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And let us contract marriages one with another: give us your daughters, and take you our daughters.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And let us contract marriages one with another: give us your daughters, and take you our daughters.

Genesis 6:2 The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.

Genesis 19:14 So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.

Genesis 24:3 That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell:

Genesis 26:34,35 And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hethite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of the same place. . . .

Genesis 27:46 And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I choose not to live.

Deuteronomy 7:3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:

Context
The Defiling of Dinah
8And Hemor spoke to them: The soul of my son Sichem has a longing for your daughter: give her him to wife: 9And let us contract marriages one with another: give us your daughters, and take you our daughters.10And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade, and possess it.…
Cross References
Genesis 34:8
And Hemor spoke to them: The soul of my son Sichem has a longing for your daughter: give her him to wife:

Genesis 34:10
And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade, and possess it.

Deuteronomy 7:3
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:

Ezra 9:14
That we should not turn away, nor break thy commandments, nor join in marriage with the people of these abominations. Art thou angry with us unto utter destruction, not to leave us a remnant to be saved?

Genesis 34:8
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