Genesis 34:8 - New International Version (Anglicised)

⁸ But Hamor said to them, ‘My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And Hamor conferred with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem craves your daughter [and sister]. I beg of you give her to him to be his wife.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you, give her unto him to wife.

Common English Bible

⁸ Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem’s heart is set on your daughter. Please let him marry her.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And so Hamor spoke to them: "The soul of my son Shechem has become attached to your daughter. Give her to him as a wife.

Genesis 34:8 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 34:3

His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.

Genesis 34:7

Meanwhile, Jacob’s sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked and furious, because Shechem had done an outrageous thing in Israel by sleeping with Jacob’s daughter – a thing that should not be done.

Genesis 34:9

Intermarry with us; give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.

1 Kings 11:2

They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, ‘You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.’ Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.

Job 7:2

Like a slave longing for the evening shadows, or a hired labourer waiting to be paid,

Psalm 119:20

My soul is consumed with longing for your laws at all times.

Psalm 63:1

You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

Psalm 84:2

My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Jeremiah 22:27

You will never come back to the land you long to return to.’