Genesis - 34:9



9 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

Verse In-Depth

Explanation and meaning of Genesis 34:9.

Differing Translations

Compare verses for better understanding.
And let us contract marriages one with another: give us your daughters and take you our daughters,
and join ye in marriage with us; your daughters ye give to us, and our daughters ye take to yourselves,
And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
And let us celebrate marriages with one with another. Give us your daughters, and receive our daughters.
Et affinitatem contrahite nobiscum: filias vestras dabitis nobis, et filias nostras accipietis vobis.

*Minor differences ignored. Grouped by changes, with first version listed as example.


Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And make ye marriages with us,.... There was no objection on their side, it lay on the other; Abraham's servant was charged by him not to take a wife of the Canaanites to his son Isaac; and the same charge was given Jacob by Isaac, Genesis 24:3; and therefore Jacob would never agree that his children should marry any of that nation; and marriages with them were afterwards forbidden by the law of Moses, Deuteronomy 7:3,
and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you; for though at present there were no other daughters in Jacob's family, yet there might be hereafter; and the request is, that for the future there might be intermarriages between them, as would be practicable in a course of time.

*More commentary available at chapter level.


Discussion on Genesis 34:9

User discussion of the verse.






*By clicking Submit, you agree to our Privacy Policy & Terms of Use.