Genesis 34:20

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What does Genesis 34:20 mean?

Genesis 34:20 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Genesis 34:20

• Ruth 4:1

  Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.

• Genesis 22:17

  That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

• Amos 5:10

  They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

• Proverbs 31:23

  Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

• Deuteronomy 17:5

  Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

• Amos 5:15

  Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

• 2 Samuel 15:2

  And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.

• Job 29:7

  When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

• Zechariah 8:16

  These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

• Amos 5:12

  For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

• Genesis 23:10

  And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

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Context

• Genesis 34:19

  And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.

• Genesis 34:20

  And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,

• Genesis 34:21

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

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