Genesis 34:9
What does Genesis 34:9 mean?
A plain-English look at Genesis 34:9 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and join ye in marriage with us; your daughters ye give to us, and our daughters ye take to yourselves,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And let us contract marriages one with another: give us your daughters, and take you our daughters.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And make marriages with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 26:34
And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
- Genesis 27:46
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, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
- Genesis 19:14
And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he seemed unto his sons-in-law as one that mocked.
- Deuteronomy 7:3
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 6:2
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose.
- Genesis 24:3
and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
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