Genesis 34:16
Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
Genesis 34:16 in other translations
| BSB | Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We will dwell among you and become one people. |
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| WEB | then will we give our daughters to you; and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. |
| ASV | then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. |
| YLT | then we have given our daughters to you, and your daughters we take to ourselves, and we have dwelt with you, and have become one people; |
| DARBY | then will we give our daughters to you, and take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and be one people. |
| BBE | Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to us and go on living with you as one people. |
| Webster | Then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. |
What does Genesis 34:16 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 34:1-19
Young persons, especially females, are never so safe and well off as under the care of pious parents. Their own ignorance, and the flattery and artifices of designing, wicked people, who are ever laying snares for them, expose them to great danger. They are their own enemies if they desire to go abroad, especially alone, among strangers to true religion. Those parents are very wrong who do not hinder their children…
Genesis 34:16 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Genesis 34:15
But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
- Genesis 34:16
Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
- Genesis 34:17
But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
Genesis 34:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Entonces os daremos nuestras hijas, y tomaremos nosotros las vuestras; y habitaremos con vosotros, y seremos un pueblo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | alors nous vous donnerons nos filles, et nous prendrons vos filles, et nous habiterons avec vous; et nous serons un seul peuple. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | dann wollen wir euch unsere Töchter geben und eure Töchter uns nehmen, und wir wollen bei euch wohnen und ein Volk sein. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | tunc dabimus et accipiemus mutuo filias vestras ac nostras: et habitabimus vobiscum, erimusque unus populus. |