Genesis 34:9

The Passion Translation

Let’s allow our people to intermarry. Let your daughters marry our sons, and we will let our daughters marry your sons.

Cross References

Genesis 27:46

Later, Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m so disgusted with our Hittite daughters-in-law. I’d rather die than see Jacob marry one of these local girls—these Hittite women!”

Genesis 24:3

and I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not acquire a wife for my son among the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living.

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out to find the two men who were pledged to marry his daughters and told them, “Hurry, leave the city, for Yahweh is about to destroy it!” But they thought he was only joking and paid him no attention.

Genesis 6:2

Divine beings found them very appealing, so they took the women they wanted as their wives.

Genesis 34:8

But Hamor tried to defuse the situation, saying, “Listen, my son Shechem is in love with your daughter. Please, give her to him in marriage.

Genesis 34:10

You may settle here among us, live anywhere you wish, move about freely, and acquire property.”