Genesis 34:12 - The Scriptures 2009

¹² Ask of me a bride price and gift ever so high, and I give according to what you say to me, but give me the girl for a wife.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Ask me ever so much dowry and [marriage] gift, and I will give according to what you tell me; only give me the girl to be my wife.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

Common English Bible

¹² Make the bride price and marriage gifts as large as you like, and I will pay whatever you tell me. Then let me marry the young woman.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Increase the dowry, and request gifts, and I will freely bestow what you will ask. Only give me this girl as a wife."

Genesis 34:12 Cross References

Genesis 24:53

And the servant brought out ornaments of silver, and ornaments of gold, and garments, and gave them to Riḇqah. He also gave costly gifts to her brother and to her mother.

Genesis 29:18

And Ya‛aqoḇ loved Raḥĕl, so he said, “Let me serve you seven years for Raḥĕl your younger daughter.”

Genesis 31:41

“These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 34:11

And Sheḵem said to her father and her brothers, “Let me find favour in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I give.

Genesis 34:13

But the sons of Ya‛aqoḇ answered Sheḵem and Ḥamor his father, and spoke with deceit, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.

2 Samuel 3:14

Dawiḏ then sent messengers to Ishbosheth son of Sha’ul, saying, “Give me my wife Miḵal, to whom I became engaged for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

Exodus 22:15

“But if its owner was with it, he does not repay. If it was hired, he is entitled to the hire.

Hosea 3:2

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and one and one-half ḥomers of barley.

Matthew 14:17

And they said to Him, “We have here only five loaves and two fish.”

1 Samuel 18:23

And the servants of Sha’ul spoke those words in the hearing of Dawiḏ. And Dawiḏ said, “Does it seem to you a small matter to be a sovereign’s son-in-law, seeing I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?”