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Genesis 34:10 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.” "
Genesis 34:10
Verse in Context
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8 Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
9 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”
11 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”
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Genesis 34:1
"Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land."
Genesis 34:2
"Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her."
Genesis 34:3
"His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady."
Genesis 34:4
"Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”"
Genesis 34:5
"Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came."
Genesis 34:6
"Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him."
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