Genesis 34:4
And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
Genesis 34:4 in other translations
| BSB | So Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.” |
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| WEB | Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.” |
| ASV | And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife. |
| YLT | And Shechem speaketh unto Hamor his father, saying, ‘Take for me this damsel for a wife.' |
| DARBY | And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Take me this girl as wife. |
| BBE | And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife. |
| Webster | And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel for a wife. |
What does Genesis 34:4 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 34:1-4
Ge 34:1-31. The Dishonor of Dinah. 1-4. Though freed from foreign troubles, Jacob met with a great domestic calamity in the fall of his only daughter. According to Josephus, she had been attending a festival; but it is highly probable that she had been often and freely mixing in the society of the place and that she, being a simple, inexperienced, and vain young woman, had been flattered by the attentions of the…
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 34:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 34:4
- Judges 14:2
And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.
- Genesis 21:21
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
- 2 Samuel 13:13
And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.
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Context
- Genesis 34:3
And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
- Genesis 34:4
And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
- Genesis 34:5
And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.
Genesis 34:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y habló Sichêm á Hamor su padre, diciendo: Tómame por mujer esta moza. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Sichem parla à Hamor, son père, disant: Prends-moi cette jeune fille pour femme. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Sichem sprach zu Hemor, seinem Vater, und sagte: Nimm mir dieses Mädchen zum Weibe. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et pergens ad Hemor patrem suum: Accipe, inquit, mihi puellam hanc conjugem. |