Genesis 34:9

And make ye marriages with us, [and] give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

And make ye marriages {H2859} with us, and give {H5414} your daughters {H1323} unto us, and take {H3947} our daughters {H1323} unto you.

and intermarry with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

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

And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

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Cross-References

  • Deuteronomy 7:3 (3 votes)

    Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

  • Genesis 24:3 (1 votes)

    And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

  • Genesis 19:14 (1 votes)

    And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

  • Genesis 26:34 (1 votes)

    ¶ And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

  • Genesis 26:35 (1 votes)

    Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

  • Genesis 27:46 (1 votes)

    And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these [which are] of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

  • Genesis 6:2 (1 votes)

    That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.