Genesis 34:9

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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

Deuteronomy 7:3

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

Genesis 27:46

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “Your son Esau married Hittite women. I am very upset about this, because they are not our people. I’ll have nothing to live for if Jacob marries one of these women!”

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 these people, but don’t let him marry a Canaanite girl.

Genesis 19:14

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

Genesis 34:8

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

Genesis 34:10

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

Ezra 9:14

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