Genesis 34:9

New International Reader's Version

Let your people and ours get married to each other. Give us your daughters as our wives. You can have our daughters as your wives.

Cross References

Genesis 19:14

Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law. They had promised to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry up! Get out of this place! The Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

Genesis 24:3

The Lord is the God of heaven and the God of earth. I want you to make a promise to me in his name. I’m living among the people of Canaan. But I want you to promise me that you won’t get a wife for my son from their daughters.

Genesis 27:46

Then Rebekah spoke to Isaac. She said, “I’m sick of living because of Esau’s Hittite wives. Suppose Jacob also marries a Hittite woman. If he does, my life won’t be worth living.”

Genesis 34:10

You can live among us. Here is the land. Live in it. Trade in it. Buy property in it.”

Genesis 34:8

But Hamor said to Jacob and his sons, “My son Shechem wants your daughter. Please give her to him to be his wife.

Genesis 6:2

The sons of God saw that the daughters of human beings were beautiful. So they married any of them they chose.

Ezra 9:14

Suppose we don’t obey your commands again. And suppose we continue to marry people who commit sins that you hate. If we do, you will be so angry with us that you will destroy us. You won’t leave us even a few people. You won’t leave anyone alive.

Deuteronomy 7:3

Don’t marry any of their people. Don’t give your daughters to their sons. And don’t take their daughters for your sons.