Genesis 34:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Intermarry with us; give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves.”
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“Intermarry with us; give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and join ye in marriage with us; your daughters ye give to us, and our daughters ye take to yourselves,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 34:9 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 6:2the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.
- Genesis 19:14So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
- Genesis 24:3and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,
- Genesis 26:34When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
- Genesis 27:46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
- Deuteronomy 7:3Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
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