Genesis 34:8 - The Scriptures 1998

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And Hamor conferred with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem craves your daughter [and sister]. I beg of you give her to him to be his wife.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you, give her unto him to wife.

Common English Bible

⁸ Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem’s heart is set on your daughter. Please let him marry her.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And so Hamor spoke to them: "The soul of my son Shechem has become attached to your daughter. Give her to him as a wife.

Genesis 34:8 Cross References

Genesis 34:3

And his being clung to Dinah the daughter of Yaʽ

Genesis 34:7

And the sons of Yaʽ

Genesis 34:9

“And intermarry with us, give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves,

1 Kings 11:2

from the nations of whom יהוה  had said to the children of Yisra’ĕ

Job 7:2

Like a servant who sighs for the shade, and like a hireling longing for his wages,

Psalm 119:20

My being is crushed with longing For Your right-rulings at all times.

Psalm 63:1

O Elohim, You are my Ě

Psalm 84:2

My being has longed, and even fainted, For the courts of יהוה ; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living Ě

Jeremiah 22:27

“But they shall not return to the land to which their being yearns to return.