Genesis 34:21

World English Bible

“These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters.

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Genesis 34:21 in other translations

These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for, behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

Genesis 34:21 · American Standard Version

Genesis 34:21 in context

  1. 19The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.
  2. 20Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
  3. 21“These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters.
  4. 22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.
  5. 23Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”