Genesis 34:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Will not their livestock, their property, and all their animals be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will live among us.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of their's be our's? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Shall not their cattle and their possessions and all their beasts be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell here with us.

American Standard Version (1901)

Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

Common English Bible

Their livestock, their property, and all of their animals—won’t they be ours? Let’s agree with them and let them live with us.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And their substance, and cattle, and all that they possess, will be ours, if only we will acquiesce to this, and so, in living together, will form one people."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And their substance, and cattle, and all that they possess, shall be ours: only in this let us condescend, and by dwelling together, we shall make one people.

Genesis 34:23 Cross References

Genesis 34:22

Only on this condition will they agree to live among us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised.

Genesis 34:24

And all who went out of the city gate heeded Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

Proverbs 28:20

The faithful will abound with blessings, but one who is in a hurry to be rich will not go unpunished.

John 2:16

He told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!”