Genesis 34:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²³ Will not their cattle, their property and all their beasts be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will dwell with us.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ 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

²³ 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)

²³ 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

²³ 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

²³ 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

²³ 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 the men agree to dwell with 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 gate of his city hearkened to Hamor and his son Shechem; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

John 2:16

And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; you shall not make my Father's house a house of trade.”