Genesis 34:9

Easy To Read Version

This marriage will show we have a special agreement. Then our men can marry your women, and your men can marry our women.

Cross References

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, the men who had married his {other} daughters. Lot said, “Hurry and leave this city! The Lord will soon destroy it!” But those men thought Lot was joking.

Genesis 24:3

Now I want you to make a promise to me. Promise to me before the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry a girl from Canaan. We live among those people but don’t let him marry a Canaanite girl.

Genesis 27:46

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “Your son Esau married Hittite women. I am very upset about these women. Why? Because they are not our people. I’ll just die if Jacob marries one of these women too!”

Genesis 34:10

You can live in the same land with us. You will be free to own the land and to trade here.”

Genesis 34:8

But Hamor talked to the brothers. He said, “My son Shechem wants Dinah very much. Please let him marry her.

Ezra 9:14

So we know that we must not break your commands. We must not marry those people. Those people do very bad things. God, if we continue to marry those bad people, we know you will destroy us! Then there would be no person from the people of Israel left alive.

Deuteronomy 7:3

Don’t marry any of those people, and don’t let your sons or daughters marry any of the people from those other nations.